ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,986, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).
"Method for managing a communicating meter" was invented by Oussama Abid (Rueil Malmaison, France), Abbas Sabraoui (Rueil Malmaison, France) and Ahmet Samet Basturk (Rueil Malmaison, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a communicating meter supplied by cell, for measuring consumption of a fluid, the meter including a measurement unit. The meter has three operating modes: a nominal operating mode wherein the measurement unit makes measurements at a predetermined nominal frequency, a degraded operating mode wherein t...