ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,163, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Sense Labs Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Identifying devices using power data and network data" was invented by Jonah Wyman Petri (Somerville, Mass.), Christopher M. Micali (Concord, Mass.) and Michael S. Phillips (Belmont, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices in a building may be identified using a combination of power monitoring and network monitoring. Power monitoring may be performed by obtaining a power monitoring signal and processing the power monitoring signal with models to determine information about one or more devices in the building. Network monitoring may be performed by recei...