US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Sept. 16 for "Non-wire alternatives grid deferrals" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,436, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Non-wire alternatives grid deferrals" was invented by Deidre Yiu (San Francisco) and David Rothblum (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing energy to an electronic device electrically coupled to a local distribution network are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method comprises determining an energy demand of the local distribution network and determining whether the energy demand exceeds a distribution limit of the local distribution network. In accordance with a determination that the energy demand exceeds the di...