ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,772, issued on May 26, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
"Energy efficiency data collection service" was invented by Michael Ting (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy efficiency data collection system architecture may be configured to enable efficient and accurate collection of energy efficiency data associated with users and/or sites associated with users and generation of profiles associated with the users based on the energy efficiency data. An energy efficiency data collection service may receive location information, image data, and user-input data from an application operating on a mobile dev...