ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,670, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HITACHI ENERGY LTD (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Data structure comprising an energy schedule and method for providing a data structure comprising an energy schedule" was invented by Thomas Locher (Zurich), Yvonne-Anne Pignolet (Zurich) and Alexandre Oudalov (Fislisbach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method for providing a data structure comprising a refined energy schedule, the method comprising receiving a plurality of energy demand requests, energy storage offers, and/or energy supply offers from a plurality of participants of a power n...