ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,358, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sense Labs Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Power event identification with distributed computing" was invented by Matthew William Fishburn (Somerville, Mass.), George Zavaliagkos (Lexington, Mass.) and Michael S. Phillips (Belmont, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information about power events on the electrical grid may be determined by processing reports of power anomalies from power monitors installed at various points on the electrical grid, such as in buildings of end users of electrical power. A power monitor may process sensor measurements of the power line to determine that a power anomal...