US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry on Feb. 17 for "System and method for energy management of a power distribution panel" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,982, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"System and method for energy management of a power distribution panel" was invented by Amit Nayak (Atlanta) and Guang Yang (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are systems and methods for energy management of a power distribution panel. Circuit breakers and an energy management gateway are located in the power distribution panel, and an internal panel communication network is established among the circuit breakers and the gateway. The gateway exchanges data of the circuit breakers and sends commands to control the circuit breakers. The...