ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,186, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for operating a power supply network, computer program and electronically readable data carrier" was invented by Michael Metzger (Markt Schwaben, Germany), Nikolai Demydov (Feucht, Germany), Eva Wagner (Erlangen, Germany), Mathias Duckheim (Erlangen, Germany) and Paul Stursberg (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The teachings herein include methods for operating a low- or medium-voltage power supply network including lines and a plurality of systems connected thereto. The method may include: providing GIS data with geographic location information relating to the p...