ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,556, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Electric grid connection mapping" was invented by Ananya Gupta (San Francisco), Peter Evans (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Leo Francis Casey (San Francisco) and Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld (Mountain View, Calif.).
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 predicting connections in electric grid models are disclosed. A method includes obtaining geospatial data representing a geographic area that includes an electrical distribution system; and generating, from the geospatial da...