Patents by Inventor James Dale Steffes

James Dale Steffes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20150161747
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a customer with guaranteed savings on its long-run energy charges as between a Utility and a Competitive Retailer. Preferably the method and system, including one or more computers with microprocessors for executing computer coded instructions, obtains and stores customer attributes, current energy provider, billing cycle and switching time constraints and restrictions and receives forecasted costs and prices of the Utility and the Competitive Retailer for the customer's next billing cycle. The system processes, via the computer, the customer data and the energy data for the Utility and Competitive Retailer to determine the energy provider projected to have the lower price for the next billing cycle of the customer. Preferably, the system requests a switch to the energy provider projected to have the lower price in that customer's next billing cycle, unless the customer is currently receiving service from the projected energy provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: NRG ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth Paul Keene, JR., Maria Gabriela Rodriguez, Alicia Kathryn Lewis, Paul Todd Frantz, James Dale Steffes