US Patent Issued to Pentair Water Pool and Spa on Jan. 27 for "Automatic discovery of pool pad equipment system and method" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,926, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Pentair Water Pool and Spa Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"Automatic discovery of pool pad equipment system and method" was invented by Keith Lewis (New Hill, N.C.), Edgardo Rodriguez (Camarillo, Calif.), Ramsundar Mollyn (Moorpark, Calif.), Stephen Hirsch (Oxnard, Calif.) and Carl Regan (Dunn, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for automatically discovering one or more pool devices of a connected aquatic system. The one or more pool devices include one or more secondary panels and one or more pool components. A primary panel can broadcast a discovery message to identify the one or m...