US Patent Issued to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM on Sept. 16 for "Selection of the phase used to communicate by PLC" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,653, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Selection of the phase used to communicate by PLC" was invented by Christophe Grincourt (Rueil Malmaison, France), Marc Jeanrot (Rueil Malmaison, France) and Flavien Polverari (Rueil Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electricity meter, arranged to measure electrical energy supplied to an installation by a distribution network comprising a plurality of phases, the electricity meter including a communication module arranged to implement a communication by power-line communication; a switching circuit arranged to selectivel...