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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190302 | Load shedding system for an electromechanically controlled oven A system for reducing peak power usage in a cooking appliance having an oven cavity therein is provided. The system includes at least one power consuming unit with at least two separately controllable elements, a user adjustable electromechanical switching device fo... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185250 | Power load control system for utility power system The system frequency can be effectively and efficiently regulated within a permissive range by using a power load control system capable of matching a high frequency component of a total generated power to a variation of total power consumption of power equipments. | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175756 | System and method to manage power consumption A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code having programming instructions tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium. The programming instructions are operable to detect an occurrence of at least one of a geobound... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170722 | Method and apparatus for coding and linking electrical appliances for control and status report A coding method and apparatus for linking electrical appliances for control and status reporting by arbitrarily appending the appliances remote control protocol with the premise's room/zone code for identifying the appliance location and ID-code to operate on the ba... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160753 | Time integrated guard band An automated method of controlling a power managed system, such as a power over Ethernet system. The method is constituted of: establishing a power consumption budget for a plurality of loads; defining an overbudget limit and an associated time window; monitoring po... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160752 | Managing energy usage Accessing an energy usage rule for a device is described, wherein the device is coupled with a first structure. The energy usage of the device is monitored. The energy usage rule and the energy usage is then compared. Based on the comparing, an instruction is genera... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150557 | Method and system for reducing feeder circuit loss using demand response A system and method that analyzes at least one aspect of the power grid for demand response in order to reduce feeder circuit losses is provided. The system and method may use a demand response model to select one or more factors for the demand response, such as sel... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145362 | Utility grid power averaging and conditioning As system is disclosed for providing power averaging for the utility grids and more specifically to utilizing a unique EESU unit with the capability to store electrical energy over 24 hour periods each day and provide power averaging to homes, commercial, and indust... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140194 | Supply-and-demand control system of distributed and coordinated type, for use in power systems According to one embodiment, each of the nodes incorporated in the respective electrical apparatuses that constitute a local power system establishes a communication path connected to any adjacent node, transmits and receive average supply-and-demand state data to a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135499 | Load shedding of a selected substation by an electric utility Load shedding by an electric utility, including querying power distribution systems that include a DRG system for present power consumption of the local load of the power distribution system; selecting, in dependence upon the present power consumption of the local l... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131403 | System and method for determining and utilizing customer energy profiles for load control for individual structures, devices, and aggregation of same A system and method for creating and making use of customer profiles, including energy consumption patterns. Devices within a service point, using the active load director, may be subject to control events, often based on customer preferences. These control events c... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121743 | Power restoration management method and system A power restoration method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor of a computing apparatus, a signal indicating that a power outage has ended and that an input voltage signal used for powering power consumption devices at a first specified... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121741 | Intelligent monitoring of an electrical utility grid A method of managing an electric utility grid includes geographically grouping a set of customer electric usage meters to create a set of fine sensors on a power grid. Each usage meter in the grouped set is capable of being remotely monitored, and each usage meter i... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121742 | Methods, circuits, and computer program products for generation following load management Two water heaters may be installed in series at a customer location, such that an output of a first (or storage) water heater is coupled to the input of a second (or primary) water heater, the output of which provides hot water to the customer location. During norma... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108081 | System and method for associating a load demand with a variable power generation Systems and methods for associating a load demand with a variable power generation are described. A system includes a renewable variable power generation module including a sensor, the sensor configured to determine an output power capability value for the renewable... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103389 | Modular energy control system A wireless base unit communicates with one or more wireless load manager units to receive power measurements for one or more loads connected to the wireless load manager. In response to dynamic variables, such as the changing price of electricity, the wireless base ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103390 | Methods for reading data in a utility meter in connection with a load reduction initiative In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method to read energy-related data in a power meter. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes the step of sending a request message to an on-premise processor, directing the on-premise processor to read ener... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8068938 | Method and system for managing a load demand on an electrical grid A method for managing electrical demand on a power grid in response to electrical supply conditions is described. The method includes determining a first energy demand forecast using stored information, determining a first energy supply forecast based on a known ene... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8019485 | System and method for controlling the performance of a power generating system A method and system for energy management in a power system. Target performance standards are calculated and used to measure performance and to comply with regulatory performance standards. The target performance standards are based on probability theory and are use... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014905 | System and method for demand limiting resistive load management An electricity demand limiting system for limiting the electricity consumption of at least one resistive load device. The demand limiting system includes a consumption controller associated with the resistive load device that is operable to infinitely vary the amoun... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005576 | Method for deactivating a utility meter In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method to deactivate a utility meter. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes the step of reading a first status indicator associated with the utility meter in a memory of a utility meter management host pr... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996116 | Method of determining voltage stability margin for load shedding within an electrical power system A method of monitoring voltage stability within an electrical power system comprises the steps of establishing a dynamic power system stability margin based on an operating characteristic of the power system; indicating that the power system has become unstable when... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991513 | Electric energy bill reduction in dynamic pricing environments A system that can save energy and reduce electric utility costs is disclosed. The system may include one or more current measurement devices communicating with a processor as well as one or more switching devices for controlling power consumption in response to util... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7962249 | Method and system for providing central control in an energy generating system A central array controller for an energy generating array is provided. The array includes a plurality of energy generating devices, and each energy generating device is coupled to a corresponding local converter. The central array controller includes a diagnostic mo... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957846 | Energy arbitrage by load shifting Methods and systems are provided for realizing energy cost savings through load shifting utilizing a battery bank that may serve as a battery back-up on a premises for providing power in the event of a grid power outage or curtailment. A budget of unreserved cycles ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953518 | Energy cost reduction and ad delivery The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing energy consumption with an energy sink device in order to reduce energy costs. An energy sink device can consume a portion of energy. An interface component can receive a portion ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953519 | Energy usage monitoring and balancing method and system A monitoring method and system. The method includes monitoring by a monitoring apparatus, a power configuration for electrical devices and a status for power supplier entities. The monitoring apparatus re-balances a power usage for the electrical devices. The monito... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7925388 | Remotely controllable wireless energy control unit A power management system and associated method includes provision of local wireless energy control units at remote sites for controlling power delivery to customer loads, and a central station with a wireless transmitter for broadcasting commands to the wireless en... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7894946 | Apparatus for managing an energy consuming load by compiling load state data from other loads An apparatus for managing an energy consuming load in a group of energy consuming loads comprising the load and a plurality of other loads, including a transmitter to transmit a set of load state data generated from the load and a receiver to receive sets of load st... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7869904 | Utility load control management communications protocol A method for managing a utility load by controlling electrical consumption of electrically powered devices. The method includes selecting a target for load control forming a single variable length load control message according to a communication protocol. The load ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7853365 | Optimal load distributing system A system manages an optimal load distribution of a total output of a power plant composed of a plurality of units. Plant specifications data of each unit required for optimal load distribution is input and stored. Optimal load distribution calculating carries out a ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848855 | Method for operating a system of modular structure, in particular a process automation system There is described a method for operating a system of modular structure, which can be extended during operation by adding modules that consume electrical energy, in particular a process automation system, the system having a power supply, which supplies the other mo... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7778737 | Method and system for local load control A method and system for shedding loads based upon a power system characteristic, such as voltage or frequency, is provided. In one embodiment, a remote party, such as a power generator or utility, transmits a signal to a control device proximately located with a loa... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7778738 | Method and system for reducing feeder circuit loss using demand response A system and method that analyzes at least one aspect of the power grid for demand response in order to reduce feeder circuit losses is provided. The system and method may use a demand response model to select one or more factors for the demand response, such as sel... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7765035 | Systems and methods for remote power management using 802.11 wireless protocols Systems and methods are disclosed for using 802.11 based wireless protocols in various energy management applications wherein a host controller uses various types of communication networks to distribute information to an on-premise processor that in turn uses 802.11... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7747357 | Method of communicating a command for load shedding of a load control system A system provides for secure communication between an electrical utility company and an electricity customer, such that the customer is able to shed one or more loads in response to a load shed command from the utility company. A system server of the customer period... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7738999 | System for controlling electrically-powered devices in an integrated wireless network An intelligent network demand control system provides a system and method for controlling demand in an energy delivery system. The intelligent network demand control system employs a transceiver network with a plurality transceivers coupled to meters and appliances ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729810 | Electrical power distribution control systems and processes In one aspect, the present disclosure describes a power adjustment process. The process for power distribution regulation includes filtering data from electrical sensors to provide conditioned data representative of a portion of a power distribution grid and determi... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7729811 | Systems and methods for utility grid power averaging, long term uninterruptible power supply, power line isolation from noise and transients and intelligent power transfer on demand The use of electrical energy storage unit (EESU) technology can provide power averaging for utility grids. Such EESUs can also be used to construct a system capable of storing electrical energy over specified periods (e.g., 24 hours) to provide peak power to homes, ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7729812 | Field deployable power distribution system and method thereof A system for providing field deployable electrical power distribution is provided. The system includes a plurality of power sources providing electrical power to meet the electrical needs of a field operations camp. The power sources include at least one regenerativ... | 06/01/2010 |
