ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,972, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Aclara Technologies LLC (St. Louis).
"Geographic addressing of field equipment" was invented by David Donald Haynes (St. Peters, Mo.), Robert W. Richardson (St. Charles, Mo.) and Peggy Rose Devereaux (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product and method for addressing field equipment is provided. A unit of addressable field equipment considers itself selected or addressed and becomes receptive to a commanding message after determining that its determined coordinate pair lies within a geographical boundary."
The patent was filed on Nov. 8, 2021, under Application No. 17/521,315.
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