ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,124, issued on May 27, was assigned to Heila Technologies Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Automatic detection of distributed energy resources system parameters" was invented by Jorge Elizondo Martinez (Sonoma, Calif.), Albert Tak Chun Chan (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Francisco A. Morocz Bazzani (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method determines the topology of a DERs system having a plurality of assets, where at least one of the assets is a controllable asset. The method injects a power signal at a given frequency from a controllable asset into the DERs system. The voltage at each of the plurality of assets is measured,...