US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on July 21 for "Home energy management system on a stick, connected to utility meter" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,406, issued on July 21, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Home energy management system on a stick, connected to utility meter" was invented by Andreas Ropel (Torslanda, Sweden) and Jones Schold (Hisings Backa, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, disclosed is a system comprising an energy management module, electrically coupled to a utility meter, energy consuming devices and energy producing devices, comprising, a communication module configured to receive input energy data from utility meter, and energy information of energy consuming devices and energy producing devices; a process...