ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,686, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Power-meter apparatus, circuits and methods" was invented by Lukas Vaculik (Valasske Mezirici, Czech Republic) and Radek Holis (Karolinka, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power-meter includes a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to determine a respective consumed energy within each of a plurality of predetermined contiguous time intervals, a dequantizer, and a pulse generator. The dequantizer is configured to, for each time interval, determine a sum of a remainder and the consumed energy, calculate an integer pulse-count by dividing the sum ...