US Patent Issued on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus, system, and method for controlling household appliances and reducing energy consumption through load control and demand management" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,544, issued on Oct. 14.

"Apparatus, system, and method for controlling household appliances and reducing energy consumption through load control and demand management" was invented by Dominic Luciano (Wickenburg, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method for controlling household appliances and reducing energy consumption through load control and demand management which includes a PCB module adapted to determine an appliance's power status and power consumption and demand, and which includes a solid state industrial grade primary TRIAC semiconductor, a microcontroller with WiFi capabilities, a number of op...