US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for coordinating synchronized sampling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,405, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for coordinating synchronized sampling" was invented by Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan (Fremont, Calif.) and Venkateswara Rao Manepalli (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for coordinating data sampling among devices include a set of electronic devices that may periodically sample energy data from a smart meter according to sample timing information. The sample timing information may specify a set of times to sample energy data for each electronic device. The set of electronic devices may take turns in sampling e...