ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,323, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FLEXENERGI LLC (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

"Adaptive polling system and method" was invented by Brian Grunkemeyer (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Laura McCarty (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for adaptive polling to minimize energy usage while also providing a reasonable quality of service. The system includes one or more processors and a memory device that stores instructions thereon that when executed by the one or more processors, causes one or more of the one or more processors to execute the following operations: receive adaptive polling input information t...