US 11,715,950 B2
Sustainable energy physical delivery tracking and verification of actual environmental impact
Eric Miller, Austin, TX (US); Neil Zumwalde, Austin, TX (US); Robert Astrich, Tijeras, NM (US); Brian Lakamp, Bedford, NY (US); Evan Caron, Houston, TX (US); Zachary Livingston, Austin, TX (US); Benjamin Grimes, Austin, TX (US); and Troy Martin, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to ClearTrace Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed by ClearTrace Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed on Jan. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/587,002.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/162,682, filed on Mar. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/143,574, filed on Jan. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0247174 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. H02J 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC H02J 3/003 (2020.01) [H02J 3/004 (2020.01); H02J 3/0073 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions wherein, when the instructions are executed on a processor, the processor causes operations to be performed to automatically indicate environmental impact of consumption of energy physically generated and transmitted to a consumption location across at least one tracking and processing infrastructure, the operations comprising:
receive a signal associated with a request for environmental impact associated with a predetermined digital record of a first quantum of energy consumed in a selected time interval at a first consumption location;
in response to receiving the signal, retrieve, by the processor from a first data store, the predetermined digital record of the first quantum of energy consumed;
associate, by the processor, the digital record of the first quantum of energy consumed with a second quantum of energy generated at a generation location and a third quantum of energy transmitted via a physical transmission link during the selected time interval;
retrieve, by the processor, a first predetermined privilege to consume associated with the second quantum of energy generated and the first consumption location, and a second predetermined privilege to consume the third quantum of energy;
verify, by the processor, that the consumption location is associated with the second predetermined privilege to consume as a function of the first predetermined privilege to consume;
generate and store, by the processor, a first digital association between the first quantum of energy, the second quantum of energy, the third quantum of energy, the first predetermined privilege to consume, and the second predetermined privilege to consume;
determine, by the processor, an environmental impact indicium (EII) as a function of at least one predetermined environmental impact criterion applied to a comparison between the first quantum of energy consumed, the second quantum of energy generated, and the third quantum of energy transmitted; and,
associate the EII, by the processor, with the first digital association,
wherein the EII represents the environmental impact of the consumption location based at least partially on actual generation location of energy consumed by the consumption location.