ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,482, issued on April 21, was assigned to GFW AG (Lucerne, Switzerland).
"Central multi-user inhome display device for water meters" was invented by Stefan Christen (Huenenberg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inhome display device and method are provided for reading and monitoring consumed hot and cold water that includes a plurality of water meters which measure hot and cold water consumption and encrypt the consumption data, one internal or external radio module per water meter for transmitting the encrypted consumption data, a gateway for one or multiple water meters for receiving and transmitting the encrypted cons...