ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,881, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Nodal Power Systems Inc. (Layton, Utah).

"Optimized local power systems" was invented by Bryan Richard Black (Salt Lake City), James Daniel Sechrest (Salt Lake City) and Matthew Paul Jones (Lehi, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the disclosed technology involves a system having a generator set comprising a first engine and an output terminal, a battery energy storage system (BESS) coupled to the output terminal of the generator set, one or more electric vehicle (EV) charging stations coupled to the generator set and each structured to couple with an electric vehicle, and...