US Patent Issued to MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR on Oct. 14 for "Battery storage formulation and impact on day ahead security constrained unit commitment" (Indiana, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,947, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR INC. (Carmel, Ind.).

"Battery storage formulation and impact on day ahead security constrained unit commitment" was invented by Yonghong Chen (Zionsville, Ind.) and Ross Baldick (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and computer-readable medium of directed towards improving battery storage is provided. In some embodiments, battery storage formulations are provided and an impact of the constraints on the computational performance of security constrained unit commitment (SCUC) is determined. For example, binary variables may be gen...