ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,456, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).

"Method for applying correction to smart-meter instructions" was invented by Oussama Abid (Bois-Colombes, France), Abbas Sabraoui (Bois-Colombes, France) and Ahmet Samed Basturk (Bois-Colombes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a controller of a smart meter that includes a processor incorporating a debugging module configured to stop execution of instructions when a stop point is reached and to generate an associated hardware interrupt. For applying a correction to a set of instructions, the controller: receives a new-correc...