ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,078, issued on July 1, was assigned to Solaredge Technologies Ltd. (Herzeliya, Israel).

"Communication protocol for distributed energy management" was invented by Yoav Galin (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, a device, a method, a communication protocol, and/or the like, for energy management in a fragment, heterogeneous, electrical grid. The grid may include multiple types of power generation systems, electrical energy storage systems, electrical loads, and efficiently managing these systems may require elements that will bridge the technology gap of these systems, as well as provide best-effort power generatio...