ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,689, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KAMSTRUP A/S (Skanderborg, Denmark).
"Method for radio communication of utility meters with a data receiver" was invented by Alex Birklykke (Skanderborg, Denmark) and Jesper Torsvik Toft (Skanderborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio communication method involves utility meters installed at distributed installation locations with a data receiver. Data is received from the utility meters. Data is modulated on a received signal having a time-varying phase offset. Decision-directed phase tracking compensates for the time-varying phase offset. The compensated received signal is coherent...