ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,117, issued on March 3, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).
"Intelligent electric meter" was invented by Amar Pandharpure (Pune, India) and Meghan Saitwal (Aurangabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent electric meter includes metering components for measuring energy consumption by one or more devices used by a customer in a building, a controller electrically coupled to the metering components and structured to control operations of the metering components and receive energy consumption data based on the measured energy consumption from metering components, a software device electrically coupled t...