ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,213, issued on May 5, was assigned to STATE GRID NANJING SUPPLY POWER COMPANY (Nanjing, China).

"Method and system for multi-stage topology reconfiguration of distribution network based on graph computing" was invented by Zijian Hu (Nanjing, China), Hong Zhu (Nanjing, China), Xiaofeng Wang (Nanjing, China), Zhan Lv (Nanjing, China), Honghua Xu (Nanjing, China), Weiliang Wang (Nanjing, China), Zhiwei Zhang (Nanjing, China), Jianhua Zhou (Nanjing, China), Xiaodong Cao (Nanjing, China), Yandi Wang (Nanjing, China), Qilong Qian (Nanjing, China), Ziqiang Xu (Nanjing, China), Ye Ji (Nanjing, China) and Mingming Cai (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent ...