US Patent Issued to Itron on June 23 for "Electricity meter and system hardened against attack vectors" (North Carolina, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,896, issued on June 23, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Electricity meter and system hardened against attack vectors" was invented by Timothy James Driscoll (Raleigh, N.C.), Jeffrey Scott Bailey (Coeur dAlene, Idaho) and Christopher Higgins (Wake Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electricity meter and electricity system or grid that is hardened against attack vectors is described, and provided in part by automated multiple-factor authentication over multiple communication networks. In an example, a utility company may control an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) network to provide internal communi...