ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,035, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sapient Industries Inc. (Philadelphia).

"Powered device electrical data modeling and intelligence" was invented by Samuel M. Parks (Philadelphia) and Derek Horkel (Oreland, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrical data collected for a powered device is received over a period of time, the electrical data comprising power measurements and corresponding timestamps. The electrical data is processed to identify two or more clusters of values, each cluster representing an operational state of the powered device. Usage metrics are generated based on the identified clusters, the usage metrics indica...