ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,367, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Power system operation plan creation assistance device and method" was invented by Eisuke Kuroda (Tokyo), Kunihiko Tsunedomi (Tokyo), Daiki Nishimura (Tokyo), Shinya Ohara (Tokyo) and Yasuyuki Tada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power system operation plan creation assistance device and method capable of maintaining or improving system stability or economy includes an optimization target snapshot power flow determination unit that uses one or more pieces of foundational information to determine an optimization target snapshot power flow. The foundational informatio...