ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,188, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Observable feature configuration delivery" was invented by Elliott Buhr Edwards (Colbert, Wash.), Robert Wayne Simon (Rathdrum, Idaho), Andrew John Keats (Seneca, S.C.) and Jason Wayne Estes (Spokane, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for observable configuration delivery include receiving one or more configuration change requests (CCRs); storing the one or more CCRs in a database; signaling configuration send channels of target tenants of a plurality of tenants associated with the one or more CCRs to awaken; sending the one or more CC...