US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Dec. 2 for "Fast simultaneous feasibility test with electrical power grid perturbations over states and contingencies" (Washington, Indiana, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,401, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Fast simultaneous feasibility test with electrical power grid perturbations over states and contingencies" was invented by Jesse T. Holzer (Kennewick, Wash.), Yonghong Chen (Zionsville, Ind.), Zhongyu Wu (Carmel, Ind.), Feng Pan (Sugar Land, Texas) and Arun Veeramany (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fast simultaneous feasibility testing (SFT) for management of an electrical power grid is achieved through various innovations. The computation problem relates to evaluation of candidate solutions for external power flows into a power grid...