ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,992, issued on March 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Scalable reconfigurable apparatus and methods for electric power system emulation" was invented by Fei Wang (Knoxville, Tenn.), Jingxin Wang (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Yiwei Ma (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power system emulator apparatus includes a plurality of nodes arrayed in first and second dimensions and a plurality of transmission path emulator circuits, respective ones of which are configured to be connected between adjacent ones of the nodes in the first and second dimensions. The apparatus fu...