ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,414, issued on March 17, was assigned to Span.IO Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for managing electrical loads" was invented by Archan Padmanabhan Rao (San Francisco), Chadwick Conway (San Francisco), Jack Jester Weinstein (San Francisco) and Ian Dimen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing electrical loads includes a plurality of branch circuits, a sensor system, and control circuitry. The sensor system is configured to measure one or more electrical parameters corresponding to the plurality of branch circuits, and transmit one or more signals to the control circuitry. The control circuitry i...