US Patent Issued to Aclara Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Auto-detection of communication module protocol" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,254, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Aclara Technologies LLC (St. Louis).

"Auto-detection of communication module protocol" was invented by Peggy R. Devereaux (St. Louis) and Oscar Lopez Aguirre (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metering system including a utility meter having a processing circuit and a communication module interface. The metering system also includes a communication module electronically coupled to the utility meter via the communication module interface. The communication module interface is configured to transmit information to, and receive information from, the utility meter. The processing circuit o...