US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Nov. 3 for "System and method for reducing energy consumption of one or more appliances using smart sockets" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,396, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for reducing energy consumption of one or more appliances using smart sockets" was invented by Shyam Kumar Mohan Das (Charlotte, N.C.), Neil Philip Brown (Charlotte, N.C.), Philip Anthony Barnett (Charlotte, N.C.), Rajiv R. Singh (Charlotte, N.C.), Priyanka Vivek Joshi (Charlotte, N.C.), Venkatram D (Charlotte, N.C.) and Vinoth Durairaj (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy consumption may be reduced by tracking a measure of baseline energy over time in order to determine which of the one or more appliances have a...