US Patent Issued to AspenTech on Oct. 6 for "System and method for optimal power grid reactive resource switching" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,196, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AspenTech Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"System and method for optimal power grid reactive resource switching" was invented by Baofu Gao (Minnetonka, Minn.), John Wroblewski (Edina, Minn.), Wei Feng (Plymouth, Minn.), Roopa Akkala (Medina, Minn.), Samuel Handler (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Hrishikesh Ramesh (Dayton, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer method and system determine the reactive resources to be switched to keep voltage at key points in a power grid within their allowed high and low limits. The method periodically runs power flow for each of plural time intervals from a current time...