Patent 6904336 on Carbon Credits
is secretly held by ... Fannie Mae and the DNC.
Better NOT hold your breathe waiting for the MSM to report it.
Unpublicized but certainly not secret:
The present invention is directed to a method of residential emissions trading and a residential emissions trading commodity. In particular, an embodiment of the present invention is a method for identifying, quantifying, and aggregating reductions in residential emissions into a tradable commodity. The step of quantifying the emissions reduction may further comprise the steps of measuring an energy savings resulting from the energy savings opportunity and calculating the emissions reduction resulting from the energy savings. The method may further comprise the steps of verifying the quantification of the emissions reduction and monitoring the residential energy savings opportunities and the quantification of the emissions reduction.
This patent is assigned to Fannie Mae and was issued in 2002. There are 4 subsequent patents that reference it:
PAT. NO. Title
1 7,715,951 Full-Text System and method for managing consumption of power supplied by an electric utility
2 7,529,705 Full-Text Electronic trading system for simulating the trading of carbon dioxide equivalent emission reductions and methods of use
3 7,343,341 Full-Text Systems and methods for trading emission reductions
4 7,133,750 Full-Text System and method for residential emissions trading
5 6,904,336 Full-Text System and method for residential emissions trading