US Patent Issued to Itron on March 24 for "Utility restriction compliance monitoring and mitigation" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,766, issued on March 24, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Utility restriction compliance monitoring and mitigation" was invented by James Lee Kann (Mica, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for obtaining and processing utility consumption data (e.g., gas, water, electricity, etc.) of a utility network to determine if a violation has occurred with respect to a restriction schedule associated with a service site. By way of example, a number of utility restriction schedules associated with a number of service sites may be generated that indicate, for example, a type of restricted activity and/or event (e.g...