US Patent Issued to Avista Edge on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods to aggregate broadband services at meter collar" (Washington, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,371, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Avista Edge Inc. (Spokane, Wash.).

"Systems and methods to aggregate broadband services at meter collar" was invented by Sean Chambers (Spokane, Wash.), David Gregory Schafer (Spokane, Wash.), Mark Wayne Gustafson (Spokane, Wash.) and Yossi Har-nov (Parkland, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a consumer premise equipment (CPE) configured to couple to an electric meter at a premise. The CPE includes one or more first antennas and a first broadband over powerline (BPL) interface. The CPE is configured to receive data from a remote device, send, via the first BPL interface, a f...