US Patent Issued to Commonwealth Edison on Sept. 8 for "Topology detection in an electric power distribution grid" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,017, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Commonwealth Edison Co. (Chicago).

"Topology detection in an electric power distribution grid" was invented by Marianna Vaiman (Los Angeles), Michael Vaiman (Los Angeles), Shikhar Pandey (Oak Park, Ill.), Heng Chen (Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.), Farnoosh Rahmatian (West Vancouver, Canada) and Esa Aleksi Passo (Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are provided for circuit topology detection in an electric power circuit. In some embodiments, a computing device can access phasor data associated with the electric power circuit including an arrangement of switching devices a...