ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,963, issued on June 3, was assigned to Span.IO Inc. (San Francisco).
"Multilayer control for managing power flow" was invented by Cole Ashman (San Francisco), Jack Jester Weinstein (Oakland, Calif.), Julia Sachs (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Chadwick Conway (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes control circuitry for identifying, during operation in a first operating mode wherein electrical power is limited by protection devices, an indicator to enter a second operating mode. The indicator corresponds to power consumption of the electrical system exceeding a power capacity of the electrical system, nearing, achievi...