Y04S 10/12
Monitoring or controlling equipment for energy generation units
Official title: Monitoring or controlling equipment for energy generation units, e.g. distributed energy generation [DER] or load-side generation
Y04S10/12 (Monitoring or controlling equipment for energy generation units) appears on 2,450 US grants and 3,182 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y04S- Granted patents
- 2,450
- Published applications
- 3,182
- Assignees
- 928
- Inventors
- 4,769
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 3 | 7 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 3 | 9 |
| 2005 | 4 | 9 |
| 2006 | 7 | 12 |
| 2007 | 8 | 11 |
| 2008 | 3 | 26 |
| 2009 | 11 | 49 |
| 2010 | 22 | 104 |
| 2011 | 30 | 124 |
| 2012 | 62 | 221 |
| 2013 | 92 | 214 |
| 2014 | 131 | 239 |
| 2015 | 153 | 263 |
| 2016 | 162 | 238 |
| 2017 | 204 | 229 |
| 2018 | 189 | 228 |
| 2019 | 240 | 195 |
| 2020 | 207 | 259 |
| 2021 | 229 | 259 |
| 2022 | 199 | 212 |
| 2023 | 178 | 128 |
| 2024 | 163 | 64 |
| 2025 | 90 | 58 |
| 2026 | 35 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Techniques for managing energy forecasts6 Oct 2026US 12,756,224 B2Apple Inc.
- Systems and methods for transferring energy from a vehicle29 Sep 2026US 12,746,844 B2
- Strategic rationing of vehicle energy for supporting household loads during power outages22 Sep 2026US 12,744,388 B2Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Enhanced system and method for string balancing25 Aug 2026US 12,719,270 B2Tigo Energy Innovations LLC
- Building management and appliance control system25 Aug 2026US 12,719,281 B2Orison, Inc.
- Systems and methods for transfering energy from a vehicle24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285192 A1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- System, method, and data packets for messaging for electric power grid elements over a secure internet protocol network23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211442 A1Causam Enterprises, Inc.
- Control method and control apparatus25 Jun 2026US 2026/0175728 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Grid telemetry fingerprint4 Jun 2026US 2026/0155674 A1LO3 Energy Inc.
- Vehicle-to-everything methods and apparatuses, including vehicle-to-home functionality28 May 2026US 2026/0149282 A1Atieva, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus, method and article for physical security of power storage devices in vehicles1,063US 8,560,147 B2Gogoro Inc. · 2013
- Apparatus, method and article for authentication, security and control of power storage devices, such as batteries1,019US 9,182,244 B2Gogoro Inc. · 2015
- Smart electric vehicle (EV) charging and grid integration apparatus and methods998US 9,026,347 B2The Regents of the University of California · 2015
- Wireless energy transfer using planar capacitively loaded conducting loop resonators449US 8,035,255 B2WiTricity Corporation · 2011
- Wireless energy transfer converters438US 8,497,601 B2WiTricity Corporation · 2013