US Patent Issued to Itron on Oct. 7 for "Load shedding in advanced metering infrastructure" (North Carolina, California, Washington, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,370, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Load shedding in advanced metering infrastructure" was invented by Timothy James Driscoll (Raleigh, N.C.), Donald Lloyd Reeves III (Pleasanton, Calif.), Benjamin Damm (Point Roberts, Wash.), Juan Alemany (Liberty Lake, Wash.), David Wu Ganger (Lakewood, Colo.) and Julia Ahopelto (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and system for disconnecting loads from the electrical grid are disclosed. An application programming interface (API) frontend of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) load shedding system may receive a load she...