ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,447, issued on March 25, was assigned to Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai (Guangdong, China).

"On-grid/off-grid scheduling method and apparatus, and energy storage power supply system" was invented by Weijin Li (Guangdong, China) and Yunhong Zeng (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an on-grid/off-grid scheduling method and apparatus, and an energy storage power supply system. The method is applied to the system. The system includes an energy storage device; the energy storage device is connected to a direct current bus; one end of the direct current bus is connected to a power grid by means of an AC...