ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,314, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SUPERGRID INSTITUTE (Villeurbanne, France).

"Electricity generation system comprising a water turbine with improved dynamic response" was invented by Renaud Guillaume (Lyons, France) and Hugo Mesnage (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy production system including a hydraulic turbine system having undesirable electrical power output setpoints and identified safe electrical power output setpoints, an energy storage system, a connection connected to the energy storage system and to an electric machine of the hydraulic turbine system, and further connected to an AC power network, ...