ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,496, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Energy monitoring replenishment service" was invented by Thomas Grant Fraser (Edmonds, Wash.), Andrew Norton Moor Weaver (Redmond, Wash.), Arielle Rachel Bertman (Seattle), Matthew Liang Chaboud (San Francisco), Cameron Dean Whitehouse (Seattle) and Jesse Norman Clark (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described implementations determine or monitor one or more parameters of an electrical circuit at a location to determine device usage at the location and utilize that information to determine when consumable inventory at the location is depleted and shou...