ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,170, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to WUHAN UNIVERSITY (Wuhan, China).

"Transformer state evaluation method based on echo state network and deep residual neural network" was invented by Yigang He (Wuhan, China), Zhikai Xing (Wuhan, China), Xiao Wang (Wuhan, China), Liulu He (Wuhan, China) and Chuankun Wang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transformer health state evaluation method based on a leaky-integrator echo state network includes the following steps: collecting monitoring information in each substation; performing data filtering, data cleaning and data normalization on the collected monitoring information to obt...