ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,298, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Energy management method" was invented by Kevin R. Imes (Austin, Texas) and James Hollister (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing energy use at a site includes opening a session with a first remote server and then communicating with the at least one remote server at a periodic interval. The method proceeds by determining whether energy management information is located at the at least one remote server and then receiving the energy management information at a controller located at the site. The method then...