ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,500, issued on March 11, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Method and device for the computer-aided open-loop and/or closed-loop control of an energy generation system, and combined power plant" was invented by Volkmar Sterzing (Neubiberg, Germany), Holger Schoner (Munich), Nico Lehmann (Falkensee, Germany) and Ambrosius Ruch (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for the computer-aided open-loop and/or closed-loop control of the operation of an energy generation system. The method may include: creating a simulation model of the energy generation system; providing an effic...