US Patent Issued to ABB SCHWEIZ on June 30 for "Evolving faults in a power grid" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,251, issued on June 30, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Evolving faults in a power grid" was invented by Petri Hovila (Vaasa, Finland) and Henry Niveri (Vaasa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For detecting evolving faults in an electric power grid, a machine learning based model is trained and the trained model used using events with time information as input. An event is generated by a function in an intelligent electronic device based on one or more values measured from the electric power grid, the event indicating at least the function and its output. In the training, a plurality of event patterns that...