ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,598, issued on July 22, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Dynamic mode decomposition systems and methods to detect power quality events" was invented by Felipe Wilches Bernal (Thornton, Colo.), Matthew J. Reno (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Javier Hernandez Alvidrez (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for new systems and methods for detecting power quality disturbances, such as faults. The approach is based on the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD)-a data-driven method to estimate linear dynamics whose eigenvalues and eigenvectors approximate those...