ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,187, issued on July 1, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
"Techniques for forecasting solar power generation" was invented by Frank Monforte (San Diego) and Andrew Sukenik (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for forecasting solar power generation include determining, by a computing device, one or more configuration parameters of a photovoltaic (PV) installation; selecting, by the computing device based on the one or more configuration parameters, a prototype PV installation from a plurality of prototype PV installations; generating, by the computing device, a clear-sky solar power generation level for t...