US Patent Issued to KRAKEN TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 18 for "Consumer access device" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,253, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to KRAKEN TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (London).

"Consumer access device" was invented by Philip Renwell Steele (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Consumer Access Device (CAD) (610) is arranged to obtain utility (608) consumption data from, for example, a smart meter (not shown). The CAD (610) is also programmed to link to further CADs (612). (614) located at other premises and the linking process may be managed by a utility supplier server (618). Once linked, the CADs may communicate via the server or via a peer-to-peer arrangement. Applications executed on the CADs allow consumers to interact with ot...