ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,679, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for controlling hybrid power distribution systems" was invented by Hongbo Sun (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power flow in a power distribution system is controlled using control commands generated based on values of system parameters. In this regard, generation prediction data, load prediction data, and real-time device status of equipment are utilized to generate scheduling data for power generation and power consumption and a network topology of the system is also obtained. The values of...