US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on July 22 for "System and method for controlling a microgrid using an intelligent electronic device, and an intelligent electronic device for controlling protection relay in a microgrid" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,320, issued on July 22, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"System and method for controlling a microgrid using an intelligent electronic device, and an intelligent electronic device for controlling protection relay in a microgrid" was invented by Shunsuke Endo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microgrid control system includes: a first intelligent electronic device to detect an open/closed state of a switch coupling a microgrid and a higher-ordered system; a protection relay to disconnect a consumer from the microgrid when detecting a fault current; and a second intelligent electronic device including protectio...