US Patent Issued to Apparent Labs on Nov. 18 for "Sensor-based energy management enclosure and distributed energy resource management based on sensor data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,382, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apparent Labs LLC (Novato, Calif.).

"Sensor-based energy management enclosure and distributed energy resource management based on sensor data" was invented by Stefan Matan (Novato, Calif.) and Fred C. Horton (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power system of a consumer premises includes a circuit breaker to provide power to an electrical circuit and a current sensor mounted proximate a connection of the circuit breaker. The current sensor generates data that a controller uses to compute current draw for the circuit fed by the circuit breaker. Based on the current draw informat...