US Patent Issued to Leviton Manufacturing on Jan. 28 for "Secure communication for commissioning and decommissioning circuit breakers and panel system" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,968, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Secure communication for commissioning and decommissioning circuit breakers and panel system" was invented by Scott Freeman (Melville, N.Y.), Abhishek Golwala (Melville, N.Y.), Rejaul Monir (Melville, N.Y.) and Ozgur Keser (Melville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication enabled circuit breakers are described. Methods associated with secure communication between communication enabled circuit breakers and a panel system are described. Additionally, methods for commissioning and decommissioning such communication enabled circuit breake...