ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,587, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Extraction of instantaneous renewable generation from net load measurements of power distribution systems" was invented by Hongbo Sun (Lexington, Mass.), Ashwin Shirsat (Raleigh, N.C.), Kyeong Jin Kim (Lexington, Mass.) and Jianlin Guo (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for performing energy disaggregation of a distribution system-level net-load measurements using continuous-point-on-wave (CPOW) measurement units. The method uses a processor coupled with a memory stored instr...