ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,742, issued on March 3, was assigned to BluWave Inc. (Ottawa).
"System and methods for phantom diagnostic metering of energy systems" was invented by Mostafa Farrokhabadi (Ottawa), Francois Odouard (Larchmont, N.Y.), Devashish Paul (Ottawa) and Behnam Tamimi (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems relating to metering and diagnostics of energy or power systems are provided. Physical measurements are often not available at various parts of an energy system, such as a power grid, for example because there is no meter present or the meter is malfunctioning. Accordingly, phantom metering is performed by estim...