ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,216, issued on July 21, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).
"Modified dynamic voltage and reactive power control of AC power distribution networks" was invented by Wei Ren (Plymouth, Minn.) and Hossein Ghassempour Aghamolki (Edina, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical power distribution system configured to automatically regulate one or more Voltage/VAR control devices for optimization of one or more user defined metrics in an alternating current (AC) electrical power distribution system that includes one or more power distribution lines configured to transmit AC electrical power between a substation ...