US Patent Issued to Duke Energy Corp. A-PLUS Community Solutions on June 17 for "Systems and methods for power theft detection" (North Carolina, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,289, issued on June 17, was assigned to Duke Energy Corp. A-PLUS Community Solutions Inc..

"Systems and methods for power theft detection" was invented by Ron K. Wages (Waxhaw, N.C.) and Larry J. Morrow (Nashville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for power theft detection. An example method includes receiving, by a control system, telemetry data from a transformer adjacent to a customer premise and a meter at the customer premise and storing, by the control system, the telemetry data in a memory. The example method further includes calculating, by the contr...