ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,267, issued on March 4, was assigned to Utopus Insights Inc. (Valhalla, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for distributed-solar power forecasting using parameter regularization" was invented by Srivats Shukla (Elmsford, N.Y.), Younghun Kim (Pleasantville, N.Y.) and Aijun Deng (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method comprises receiving first historical meso-scale numerical weather predictions (NWP) and power flow information for a geographic distribution area, correcting for overfitting of the historical NWP predictions, reducing parameters in the first historical NWP predictions, training first power flow model...