ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,043, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sapient Industries Inc. (Philadelphia).

"Region-based electrical intelligence system" was invented by Samuel M. Parks (Philadelphia) and Martin Koch (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a system may include a server equipped with a web application, where the web application is configured to detect a relocation of a network-enabled electric plug of network-enabled electric plugs from a first region to a second region based on changes in data communication patterns; the network-enabled electric plugs, each plug configured to deliver electricity from an electrical ...