Patents

United States Patents (BSI and Tokyo Electric Power Company)

U.S. Patent 6,868,311; "Method and Screening for On-line Dynamical Screening of Electric Power System", Date of Patent, March 15, 2005 (Inventors: Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Atsushi Kurita, Hiroshi Okamoto, Ryuya Tanabe, Yasuyuki Tada, Kaoru Koyanagi, Yicheng Zhou)

United States Patents (CRF)

U.S. Patent 5,483,462; "On-line Method for Determining Power System Transient Stability", Date of Patent, Jan. 9, 1996 (Inventor: Hsiao-Dong Chiang)

U.S. Patent 5,642,000; "Method for Preventing Power Collapse in Electric Power Systems", Date of Patent, June 24, 1997 (Inventors: Rene Jean-Jumeau and Hsiao-Dong Chiang)

U.S. Patent 5,734,586; "System for Achieving Optimal Steady State in Power Distribution Networks", Date of Patent, Mar. 31, 1998 (Inventors: Hsiao-Dong Chiang and Jin-Cheng Wang)

U.S. Patent 5,719,787; "Method for On-Line Dynamic Contingency Screening of Electric Power Systems", Date of Patent, Feb. 17, 1998 (Inventors: Hsiao-Dong Chiang and Cheng-Shan Wang)

U.S. Patent 5,796,628; "Dynamic Method for Preventing Voltage Collapse in Power Systems”, Date of Patent, August 18, 1998 (Inventors: Hsiao-Dong Chiang and Cheng-Shan Wang) Taiwan Patent 083962; "Dynamic Method for Preventing Voltage Collapse in Power Systems”, Date of Patent, August 18, 1998 (Inventors: Hsiao-Dong Chiang and Cheng-Shan Wang)

Taiwan Patent

Taiwan Patent 083962; "Dynamic Method for Preventing Voltage Collapse in Power Systems”, Date of Patent, August 18, 1998 (Inventors: Hsiao-Dong Chiang and Cheng-Shan Wang) Taiwan Patent 083962; "Dynamic Method for Preventing Voltage Collapse in Power Systems”, Date of Patent, August 18, 1998 (Inventors: Hsiao-Dong Chiang and Cheng-Shan Wang)

Bigwood and Cornell Research Foundation Reach Agreement

In July 2003 Bigwood Systems, Inc. (BSI) and Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (CRF) signed an Agreement granting BSI exclusive rights to develop five patented inventions for commercial purposes. These five inventions are:

Bigwood Systems, Inc., headquartered in Ithaca, New York, is a recognized world leader in developing on-line dynamic security assessment and control software for energy management systems, voltage security assessment and preventive control, voltage security assessment and enhancement control and continuation power flow (CPFLOW). Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cornell University and holds the ownership interests of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and proprietary materials made by Cornell employees.

The Agreement grants BSI an exclusive license to make, provide, use, sell, lease, import or export products and services under the Patents listed above. BSI's exclusive and unrestricted control of the commercial development for these inventions significantly enhances and strengthens BSI's mission to provide the best technology products to the global electric power industry.