ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,398, issued on July 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power management apparatus and power management method" was invented by Takahisa Matsuo (Kyoto, Japan), Takashi Suenaga (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazumasa Shichiri (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management apparatus acquires, as time-series data, a measurement result of a measurement device configured to measure, at a predetermined interval, power supplied to a load from a power socket installed in a facility. A controller classifies the time-series data into first data before a first condition is satisfied and second data after the first condition ...