US Patent Issued to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham on Aug. 5 for "Optimal communication architecture for smart distribution power grid" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,519, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (India).

"Optimal communication architecture for smart distribution power grid" was invented by Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh (Kerala, India), Aryadevi Remanidevi Devidas (Kerala, India) and P. Venkat Rangan (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing a micro grid within a Smart Distribution Power Grid (SDPG) has steps for connecting a smart meter enabled to sense voltage, to sense current and current direction and to communicate wirelessly to individual ones of consumer sites within an area of the micro grid, determining a set of Smart Distri...