ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,240, issued on May 27, was assigned to TAE TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

"Multi-phase module-based energy system frameworks and methods related thereto" was invented by Mikhail Slepchenkov (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Roozbeh Naderi (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing and/or installation frameworks for a modular multi-level energy system includes a set of similar cabinets configured for orthogonal (e.g., vertical and horizontal) alignment of the modules. The cabinets are configured so modules of a particular phase are oriented along an axis parallel to a reference plane. Modules of the same lev...