ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,655, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Virtual power plant interoperability" was invented by Tuomas Niemela (Helsinki), Seppo Olavi Hamalainen (Helsinki), Olli Pekka Salmela (Helsinki), Topi Tuomas Volkov (Kantvik, Finland), Henri Jonni Koskela (Espoo, Finland), Petri Olavi Jappila (Helsinki) and Scaria Kurian (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method including receiving, from an application or function, information indicating at least one of: one or more actions performed or predicted to be performed by the application or function, or one or more key ...