ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,902, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Green Grid Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).
"Method and system for utility infrastructure condition monitoring, detection and response" was invented by Chinmoy Prosun Saha (San Ramon, Calif.), Jeffrey Scott Pickles (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kourosh Jafari Khouzani (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for utility infrastructure condition monitoring, detection, and response are disclosed. One exemplary system includes a sensor package and a monitoring and control module. The sensor package includes a plurality of sensors such as, for example, an image sensor, a video sensor...