ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,149, issued on June 16, was assigned to Aclara Technologies LLC (St. Louis).
"Meter reading schema to enhance system functionality" was invented by David Haynes (St. Peters, Mo.) and Todd Ellis (Ballwin, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improvement to a utility (U) meter's (M) meter reading schema. The improvement includes a device (D) responsive to a native language with which a meter is programmed to convert communications to and from the meter from that native language into a neutral language. The neutral language is convertible by other meters programmed with different native languages into the native language of a particula...