US Patent Issued to Itron on June 17 for "Electric vehicle distributed energy resource management" (North Carolina, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,523, issued on June 17, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Electric vehicle distributed energy resource management" was invented by Victoria Neuenschwander (Raleigh, N.C.), Tyler Byers (Liberty Lake, Wash.) and Michael Ting (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for managing electric vehicle (EV) distributed energy resource(s) (DER) are disclosed. A DER analytics engine may receive electricity consumption data of a plurality of sites from corresponding electricity meters of the plurality of sites, detect EV charging information based at least in part on the electricity consumption data, ob...