US Patent Issued to Itron on April 8 for "Parameterized distributed intelligence agents" (North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,235, issued on April 8, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Parameterized distributed intelligence agents" was invented by Scott Dale Brown (Raleigh, N.C.), Andrew Keats (Seneca, S.C.) and Jason Estes (Spokane, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agent, of a distributed intelligence application, generates feature data for a feature. A baseline configuration of parameters is processed, associated with the distributed intelligence application, to determine a first set of parameters. The baseline configuration of parameters and a modified configuration of parameters are processed to determine a second set of parameter...