ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,889, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).
"Accidental mesh prevention relay" was invented by Michael E. Ropp (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Matthew J. Reno (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-healing or self-assembling power systems that rely on local measurements for decision making can provide significant resilience benefits, but they also must include safeguards that prevent the system from self-assembling into an undesirable configuration. One situation that must be avoided is the formation of closed loops for which the system was not designe...