US Patent Issued to Aclara Technologies on March 11 for "Methods and apparatus for determining conditions of power lines" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,829, issued on March 11, was assigned to Aclara Technologies LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for determining conditions of power lines" was invented by Roger A. Smith (Gibsonia, Pa.) and Rebecca Ross (Apollo, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining conditions of power lines in a power distribution system based on data collected by a plurality of sensor units deployed in the power distribution system. The techniques include obtaining data associated with measurements collected by at least two sensor units in the plurality of sensor units, and determining, by using at least one processor, at least one con...