ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,518, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Distribution grid topology identification encoding known toplogial information" was invented by Yubo Yubo (Princeton, N.J.) and Ulrich Muenz (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for identifying a topology of a power distribution grid having a number of transformers includes acquiring measurement signals of one or more electrical quantities pertaining to nodes of the power distribution grid. A graph representation is generated using the measurement signals and grid topological information, wherein the measurement signals pertaining t...