US Patent Issued to ITRON on Dec. 16 for "Solar hybrid battery for powering network devices over extended time intervals" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,441, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Solar hybrid battery for powering network devices over extended time intervals" was invented by Bruce Edwards (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device for installation at a geographic location includes a rechargeable power cell configured to store a first amount of energy sufficient to power the network device during a longest night of a year at the geographic location without the rechargeable power cell being fully depleted and a solar panel configured to generate a second amount of energy sufficient to, during any given cloudy day at...