ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,226, issued on May 20, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).
"Intelligent non-intrusive load monitoring system" was invented by Kaushik Roy (West Lafayette, Ind.), Byunghoo Jung (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Chamika Mihiranga Liyanagedera (West Lafayette, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a non-intrusive sensor circuitry configured to provide electrical measurement data, including, for example, current data, voltage data, power factor data, active power consumption data, reactive power consumption data, or a combination thereof. A transient event detector may sweep the electrical measu...