ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,837, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich).

"Wireless data transmission system for a power utility and data transmission method" was invented by Artur Zawadzki (Cracow, Poland) and Adam Michalik (Bibice, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless data transmission system for transmitting measurement data of a power utility is adapted such that the measurement data is transmitted in a first operating mode and wireless transmission of the measurement data is paused in a second operating mode. The wireless data transmission system operates in the first or second operating mode as a function of temperature....