US Patent Issued to Aclara Technologies on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for orphaned sensor discovery and reporting" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,175, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Aclara Technologies LLC (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for orphaned sensor discovery and reporting" was invented by Peggy Rose Devereaux (Saint Louis, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A utility sensor module includes one or more sensors, a communication link, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to broadcast an advertisement signal associated with a communication protocol for a first transmission time. The advertisement signal is configured to cause an external device to transmit a response message. The electronic processor is further configured to determine ...