ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,852, issued on June 23, was assigned to TECALEMIT GMBH & Co. KG (Flensburg, Germany).
"Device and method for detecting a consumption variable" was invented by Jorg Mohr (Suderbrarup, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device (10) and method for recording a consumption variable supplied to a point of consumption. The device comprises a metering module (12) for recording the consumption variable, a first communication module (16) which is designed to communicate, preferably wirelessly, with a remote central collection unit (32) via a first communication network (30) and to transmit at least consumption-re...