ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,413, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Franklin WH Energy Storage Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Energy controller in meter socket adapter connected household microgrid" was invented by Daqing Wang (Shenzhen, China), Gang Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Ke Bi (San Jose, Calif.), Cheung (Gary) Lam (San Jose, Calif.), Douglas Amarhanow (San Jose, Calif.), Qing Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Tao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Lianyan Cai (Shenzhen, China), Yanxiang Wang (Shenzhen, China), Mingfeng Li (Shenzhen, China), Dongcai Tang (Shenzhen, China), Jingming Leng (San Jose, China) and Long Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meter socket adapt...