ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,699, 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 coupled to a power distributor, a load comprising two or more sub-loads, wherein each of the sub-loads are coupled to the power distributor via one or more respective electrical contactors, and a controller communicably coupled to th...