ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,777, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Encored Technologies Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System for disaggregating power consumption" was invented by Hyo Seop Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Ryun Yim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power consumption disaggregation system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a DB for receiving power data from a smart meter installed in a house, receiving data according to external factors affecting the power data from an external server, and storing the data in time series; an extraction unit for extracting a characteristic variable of a reference resolu...