US Patent Issued to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM on Dec. 30 for "Electricity meter arranged to detect fraudulent opening" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,572, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Electricity meter arranged to detect fraudulent opening" was invented by Henri Teboulle (Rueil Malmaison, France) and Christophe Grincourt (Rueil Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electricity meter includes a housing including at least one housing element that is normally closed; a supercapacitor and a power supply circuit arranged to act, whenever the electricity meter is put into connection with electric power, to charge the supercapacitor; both a charge-maintaining circuit arranged to act, whenever the meter has been...