ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,221, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).

"Method and system for collecting consumption data measured by smart meters" was invented by Henri Teboulle (Bois-Colombes, France) and Ziv Roter (Bois-Colombes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an automated management system, an information system delegates a collection of consumption data to a data concentrator. Through a communication network, consumption data from primary smart meters are collected in the form of business data formatted in accordance with a communication protocol. To collect consumption data from secondary smart...