US Patent Issued to Siemens on March 3 for "Integral voltage control of a distribution feeder to avoid voltage violations" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,743, issued on March 3, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Integral voltage control of a distribution feeder to avoid voltage violations" was invented by Ulrich Muenz (Princeton, N.J.) and Christian Heuer (Seevetal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling voltage in a feeder of a distribution system having a plurality of DERs includes executing a feedback control using an integral controller. A voltage signal is generated using measured or estimated voltages at multiple locations along the feeder. An error is determined between the voltage signal and a defined voltage limit. The error is input to a controll...