US Patent Issued to Hitachi Energy, ABB Schweiz on Nov. 25 for "Secure distributed state estimation for networked microgrids" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,063, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich) and ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Secure distributed state estimation for networked microgrids" was invented by Mehmet H. Cintuglu (Raleigh, N.C.) and Dmitry Ishchenko (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of networked microgrids are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a method for removing false data from a networked microgrid system including: calculating a first local state estimation with the microgrid control system; calculating a plurality of global state estimations with the microgrid control system ...