ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,918, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Protection device and method for monitoring an electrical energy supply grid" was invented by Sven Gaube (Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany), Johann Jaeger (Erlangen, Germany), Robert Kirkman (Altdorf, Germany), Elmar Noth (Erlangen, Germany), Michael Jaworski (Hochstadt, Germany), Philipp Klumpp (Nuremberg, Germany) and Martin Strauss (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection device for monitoring an energy supply grid has a measured value acquisition device for acquiring measured values which indicate an electrical state of the energy supply grid, and ...