ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,183, issued on April 14, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
"Secure messaging for outage events" was invented by Kalvinder Pal Singh (Miami, Australia), Darin Byron Johnson (San Jose, Calif.) and Zoltan Peter Kiss (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclose a method including detecting, by a first node in a mesh network while the first node is operating in a normal power mode, an outage event; in response to detecting the outage event, switching to operating the first node and a first memory of the first node in a low power mode, wherein the first memory is capable of switching betwe...