US Patent Issued to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM on Sept. 16 for "Method for transmitting and receiving consumption data and devices implementing said methods" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,402, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).

"Method for transmitting and receiving consumption data and devices implementing said methods" was invented by Henri Teboulle (Rueil Malmaison, France) and Jean-Paul Lecappon (Rueil Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting consumption data by a meter to a meter data management system is described. The meter obtains (S301) consumption data, the data being obtained by metrology software. It generates (S302) a hashcode from a triplet comprising a serial number of the meter, a cyclic redundancy code calculate...