US Patent Issued to X Development on Jan. 27 for "Privacy-preserving configuration of location-specific electrical load models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,387, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy-preserving configuration of location-specific electrical load models" was invented by Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld (Mountain View, Calif.), Ananya Gupta (San Francisco), Xinyue Li (San Mateo, Calif.) and Lucas Michael Ackerknecht (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for configuring location-specific electrical load models while preserving privacy. A first machine learning model configured to predict electrical load curves of an electrical utility grid ...