ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,311, issued on June 24, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Method of identifying appliances by analyzing harmonic components of power signal and devices for performing the same" was invented by Dae Geun Park (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and device for identifying an individual appliance through analysis of a harmonic component of a power signal. An operating appliance identification method includes collecting a mixed load signal from a home power distribution network, generating a first candidate appliance list by selecting first...