ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,848, issued on Sept. 30.

"System and method for energy infrastructure and geospatial data visualization, management, and analysis using environment simulation and virtual realization" was invented by Michael Andrew Davis II (Lockhart, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for automated damage assessment of electric grid infrastructure for post-storm recovery includes a virtual model system including a three-dimensional (3D) virtual model of physical grid infrastructure with assets, using a lidar imaging data point cloud collected in the field to characterize the physical asset condition, performing a sim...