ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,554, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detecting electrical grid assets" was invented by Xin-Jing Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Anthony Ha (Milpitas, Calif.), Sze Mei Cat Wong (Johns Creek, Ga.), Reuben Nahouraii (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Arthur Robert Pope (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Om Prakash Ravi (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for mapping an electrical grid are disclosed. A method includes sampling multiple locations within a geographic region, executing a detection process for each locat...