US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Charlotte on Nov. 4 for "Grid ancillary service with uninterruptible power supply" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,458, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Grid ancillary service with uninterruptible power supply" was invented by Sukumar Kamalasadan (Concord, N.C.), Robin Bisht (Charlotte, N.C.) and Sherif Abdelrazek (Huntersville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of operating a grid ancillary service with an uninterruptible power supply (GAUPS) device are provided. A method of operating a GAUPS device includes controlling a switch of the GAUPS device in response to a signal that is generated by the switch, to control efficiency of an inverter and quality of power supplied ...