ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,127, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to EI ELECTRONICS LLC (Westbury, N.Y.).

"Internet of things (IoT) intelligent electronic devices, systems and methods" was invented by Jorge A. Polar Seminario (Westbury, N.Y.), Luna A. Koval (Commack, N.Y.) and Erran Kagan (Great Neck, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an intelligent electronic device (IED) configured for use in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment. The IoT environment of the present disclosure may include one or more objects or things in addition to the IED coupled together via a network, where each device is configured for IoT communic...