ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,716, issued on March 17, was assigned to HITACHI ENERGY LTD (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Configurable fault tree structure for electrical equipment" was invented by Luiz Cheim (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for adjusting at least one probability value for a subset of interconnected nodes of a configurable fault tree structure. The at least one probability value is associated with a state of at least one component of a first electrical equipment, and the configurable fault tree structure represents at least one failure mode relating to the at least one component. The adjusting is based on at least ...