ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,919, issued on March 25, was assigned to FlexEnergi LLC (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

"Multi-modal control plane for demand flexibility and electric vehicle charging" was invented by Brian Grunkemeyer (Redmond, Wash.) and Ana Jamborcic (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing a multi-modal control plane for device energy consumption and charging is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of devices each having a charging mechanism in selective electrical communication with an energy provider which supplies a charge to each of the plurality of devices via the charging mechanism. One or more reinterpretat...