ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,101, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS U.S. Corp. (College Station, Texas).

"Enhanced meter management solution" was invented by Christopher Bui (Los Angeles), Alon Raskin (Houston), Jagathguru Chandrasekharan (Houston) and William Edens (Mcminnville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, from a first head end system (HES), a first raw file including a first set of events in a first HES specific format, and modifying the first set of events in the first raw file by a first HES adapter to create a first unified formatted file. The first unified formatted file is in a unified fo...