US Patent Issued to X Development on Sept. 1 for "Filling gaps in electric grid models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,325, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Filling gaps in electric grid models" was invented by Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ananya Gupta (San Francisco).

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 filling gaps in electric grid models are enclosed. A method includes obtaining vector data representing first portions of paths of electric grid wires over a geographic region; converting the vector data to first raster image data that depicts an overhead view of the electric grid wires includ...