US Patent Issued to Electro Rent on Feb. 17 for "Power line utilization monitoring systems, devices, and methods with microprocessor-based current measurement and remote authentication" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,928, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Electro Rent Corp. (West Hills, Calif.).

"Power line utilization monitoring systems, devices, and methods with microprocessor-based current measurement and remote authentication" was invented by Tim Bealby (Harrow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for an monitoring power consumption of a known electronic device including: monitoring, by a monitoring device, a received input electrical power from the known electronic devices; determining a maximum measured power value of the monitored input electrical power; converting the determined maximum power value ...