ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,834, issued on July 14, was assigned to Badger Meter Inc. (Milwaukee).

"System and method for validating streaming sensor data in a utility monitoring system" was invented by Christopher Atkeson (Los Gatos, Calif.), Arthur G. Ryman (Thornhill, Canada) and Shahram Javey (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system for validating meter data in a utility monitoring system based on streamed sensor data is described. The system includes a metering analytics system configured to receive a stream of meter data received from sensors in or in proximity with utility meters, the meter sensor data being generat...