US Patent Issued to HITACHI ENERGY on May 13 for "Device and method for controlling an interface for a power utility" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,998, issued on May 13, was assigned to HITACHI ENERGY LTD (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Device and method for controlling an interface for a power utility" was invented by Theo Widmer (Birmenstorf, Switzerland) and Lorenzo Santoro (Dottingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device uses linking rules to process and optionally update a hierarchical substation model of a power system substation. The linking rules determine to which substation object at a first hierarchy level substation objects at a further hierarchy level of the hierarchical substation model are to be connected."

The patent was filed on June 3, 2020, under Appl...