ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,697, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).
"Power supply-demand adjustment device and method" was invented by Yuki Tsujii (Tokyo) and Eisuke Kuroda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply-demand adjustment device performs output distribution to M adjustment power supplies among N adjustment power supplies in a system, based on adjustment information and supply-demand imbalance. The adjustment information includes output change rate, a distributed output, and an output limit value for each adjustment power supply. For each period, the output distribution satisfying the following (x) and (y) is performed...