ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,430, issued on July 14, was assigned to Green Running Ltd. (Bath, Great Britain) and Austin Consultants Ltd. (Bath, Great Britain).
"In-line device and a method for controlling an electrical appliance" was invented by Peter Davies (Bath, Great Britain), Konstantine Dimitrov (Bath, Great Britain) and Christopher Anthony Thoroughgood (Bath, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control and monitoring device integrated in an intermediary coupling unit, said intermediary coupling unit being configured to couple an electrical appliance to a power supply, said control and monitoring device comprising a control module configured to...