ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,091, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Eran Altmann (Haifa, Israel).
"Method and system for optical encoding metering" was invented by Eran Altmann (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for metering consumption of a resource include: a sensor comprising a display and configured to: sense a consumption of the resource; display said consumption on the display; and convert said consumption into digital sensor data; an imaging device configured to capture images of the display of the sensor; and a communications interface configured to transmit the digital sensor data and data describing one or more of the im...