ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,344, issued on June 24, was assigned to Lunar Energy Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Metering component testing" was invented by Kyle Breuning Evans (Auburn, Calif.), Sebastian Wolf (London) and Cesar Pecharroman Arribas (Winchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a process for performing metering component testing includes obtaining a configuration associated with at least one metering component installed at a site to be metered and performing a metering component test. The metering component test includes at least one of: detecting phase assignment of the at least one metering component based at...