ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,281, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for grid appliances" was invented by Michael Sean Day (Sacramento, Calif.), Matthew M. Corulli (Bellevue, Wash.), Stephen A. Kujak (Brownsville, Minn.) and Ronald Maurice Cosby II (La Crosse, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods for power demand management are described herein. More specifically, embodiments comprise systems and methods for powering, controlling, and/or operating various types of controllable load for integration with power fluctuations from intermittent power generation plants, su...