ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,317, issued on May 6, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Smart meter electrical arc prediction" was invented by Cathy Liu (San Francisco), Woei Ling Leow (San Francisco) and Rajagopal Iyengar (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments predict an occurrence of one or more hot sockets among a meter installation of a plurality of smart meters. Embodiments receive historical data over a predefined time period from the plurality of smart meters, the historical data including, for each smart meter, an amount of daily consumption of electricity for the meter, historical meter events for the ...