ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,457, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"State estimation of a power network" was invented by Sascha Batz (Hemhofen, Germany) and Mathias Duckheim (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a computer-aided method for state estimation of a power network using an artificial neural network with one or more inputs technically associated with the power network. The method may include calculating a state estimation using captured temporal measurement signals of the power network as inputs for the neural network. At least an amplitude of a harmonic of one of the measurement signals is...