ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,489, issued on March 11, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
"Intelligent data contextualization" was invented by Curtis Christman (Spokane Valley, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for contextualizing utility visualization patterns in a utility infrastructure environment are described herein. A utility meter data dashboard associated with a type of event may be displayed. A selection of a portion of a first utility visualization displayed in the utility meter data dashboard is received, the portion being associated with a subset of utility data. One or more previously used utility visualizations may be d...