ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,314, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Gebhardt Enterprises LLC (Houston).
"Methods and systems for meeting rapidly fluctuating power demands using interruptible load and stable power production" was invented by Eric Gebhardt (Houston) and Scott Hoyte (Marietta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated control method for meeting rapidly fluctuating power demands with stable power production is disclosed. The method includes determining a market value of a unit of electricity sold on the grid, a fuel cost required to produce the unit of electricity, and a market value of a processing task requiring the unity of electricity. The ...