US Patent Issued to Siemens on April 7 for "Control of a water supply system using pumping stations with resource optimized pressure and flow target values" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,886, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Control of a water supply system using pumping stations with resource optimized pressure and flow target values" was invented by Annelie Sohr (Munich), Harald Held (Bockhorn, Germany) and Guido Hulsmann (Heroldsberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling distribution of pressure and flow in a water supply system which includes a plurality of pumping stations is provided, including: (a) reading in a computer-assisted hydraulic model of the water supply system, the hydraulic model mapping a time-dependent distribution of pressure and flow, (b) deter...