US Patent Issued to Aclara Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Magnetic field detection and interaction" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,803, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Aclara Technologies LLC (St. Louis).

"Magnetic field detection and interaction" was invented by Thomas Lee McDougall Jr. (Milton, N.H.) and Charles Andrew Waters (Durham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric utility meter including a Hall Effect sensor configured to sense a magnetic field proximate the electric utility meter. The electric utility meter also includes a controller having an electronic processor, the controller configured to receive a signal indicative of a magnitude of the magnetic field proximate the electric utility meter from the sensor, determine whether the magn...