ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,101, issued on June 30, was assigned to Trilliant Networks Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"System and method for automatic recovery of missing meter readings" was invented by Harry Frederick Musgrove (Fleet, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a method for recovering missing meter readings for a plurality of meters on a network, the method comprising: periodically retrieving cached requests from a first database, wherein the cached requests are for missing meter reading data from a time series of meter readings for a plurality of meters; for each meter associated with the missing meter reading data, verify...