US Patent Issued to Aclara Technologies on Feb. 24 for "System and method of linear state estimation of a distribution network from synchronous smart meter and line sensor" (Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,580, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Aclara Technologies LLC (St. Louis).

"System and method of linear state estimation of a distribution network from synchronous smart meter and line sensor" was invented by David William Rieken (O'Fallon, Mo.), Lakshan Prageeth Piyasinghe (St. Charles, Mo.), Roger Alan Smith (Gibsonia, Pa.) and Glenn Anthony Emelko (Mentor, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a linear state estimation of a power distribution network. The system includes a plurality of metering devices, a plurality of power sources, each of the plurality of power sources coupled to a respective metering de...