ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,262, issued on July 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Managing emissions demand response event generation" was invented by Samuel Y. Chang (Mountain View, Calif.), Kristoffer J. Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.), Ramya Bhagavatula (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jeffrey Gleeson (Danville, Calif.) and Kevin Chen (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing an emissions demand response event are described. In an example, a power control server system receives an emissions rate forecast for a predefined future time period. Using the emissions rate forecast, an emissions rate event is identified ...