ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,954, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for blackout rotation enabled control of power distribution systems" was invented by Hongbo Sun (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system collects a graph-based representation of the power distribution system as a radial tree of nodes connected by edges. Each node represents a section of the power distribution system isolated by switches and each edge represents a switch that connects a section represented by the node with a neighboring section represented by the neighboring node. Eac...