ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,977, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Arad Measuring Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam Elit, Israel).
"Method and apparatus to determine utility usage" was invented by Tal Zur (Yokneam, Israel) and Hagai Michaelis (Dalia, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A type of meter register having a sealed register body, a member adapted to measure the flow of liquid through the meter, and a microprocessor adapted to send and receive messages from a cloud computing computer for determining a utility meter abnormality, comprising: receiving, at a utility meter, from a profile sharing server comprising one or more processors, a plurality of util...