ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,946, issued on June 2, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Determining grid impedance for power plants" was invented by Lingling Fan (Tampa, Fla.) and Zhixin Miao (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving a data stream from one or more power plants at the same location by a computing device; based on the received data stream, determining a grid impedance of the one or more power plants with respect to a grid by the computing device; based on the received data stream, determining power plant control parameters and communic...