ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,800, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to VODAFONE GROUP SERVICES Ltd. (Newbury, Great Britain).

"Device energy monitoring and management" was invented by Gavin Young (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system comprising determining electricity usage of a plurality of devices operating within one or more local networks. Maintaining in a data store external to each local network, data representing the determined electricity usage for each device of the plurality of devices and data identifying the device local network of the device."

The patent was filed on April 26, 2024, under Application No. 18/648,031.

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