ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,581, issued on March 31, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Electrical grid monitoring using aggregated smart meter data" was invented by Leo Francis Casey (San Francisco), Page Furey Crahan (San Francisco), Raymond Daly (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nicole Limtiaco (San Francisco), Xinyue Li (San Mateo, Calif.), Gaurav Desai (San Jose, Calif.), David Charles Chou (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Evans (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Matthew L. Ginsberg (Eugene, Ore.) and Spencer James Connaughton (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for electrical grid monitoring using aggregated smart meter data includes receiving...