US Patent Issued to ITRON on May 27 for "Real-time validation of distributed energy resource device commitments" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,022, issued on May 27, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Real-time validation of distributed energy resource device commitments" was invented by Lucas Scheidler (Oakland, Calif.) and Tim Patterson (Middle River, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device receives a commitment generated by a distributed resource device, the commitment indicating a type of the distributed resource device and a time interval when the distributed resource device modified usage of a resource at a location; receives an event corresponding to a pattern of usage of the resource at the location during the time interval; identifies ...