US Patent Issued to TRANE INTERNATIONAL on July 29 for "Controlling the electrical load of a load facility using demand response" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,890, issued on July 29, was assigned to TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Controlling the electrical load of a load facility using demand response" was invented by James Kenneth McKeever (Blaine, Minn.), Udhaya Kumar Dayalan (Lino Lakes, Minn.) and Thomas C. Basterash (East Bethel, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for controlling electrical load on a power grid from a load facility using demand response. The method includes accessing memory storing computer-readable program code for decision analysis of a specified time interval for a demand-response (DR) event. The method also includes executing th...