US Patent Issued to Siemens on May 12 for "System and method for controlling power distribution systems using graph-based reinforcement learning" (Iowa, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,150, issued on May 12, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"System and method for controlling power distribution systems using graph-based reinforcement learning" was invented by Xian Yeow Lee (Ames, Iowa), Yubo Wang (Princeton, N.J.) and Ulrich Muenz (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a power distribution system having a number of nodes and controllable grid assets associated with at least some of the node includes acquiring observations via measurement signals associated with respective nodes and generating a graph representation of a system state based on the observations and topological infor...