ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,381, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ruth Gray (Brisbane, Australia).
"Configurable wireless power control and management" was invented by Benjamin Davis (Alderley, Australia), Gary Wisniewski (Balnarring, Australia) and Barrie Davis (Sanctuary Cove, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power control device for controlling the supply of electricity to an electrical apparatus or system. The power control device includes a microcontroller having an operating system with a firmware component that has at least one sandboxed software plug-in slot for accepting a communications protocol software plug-in to configure the microcontro...