ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,543, issued on July 15, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Methods and systems for automatically configuring electrical devices in an electrical panel" was invented by Gilles De Vos (Brie et Angonnes, France) and Alan Freeman (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring electrical devices in an electrical panel includes acquiring machine-readable configuration data including a list of electrical devices to be installed; displaying a visual identifier on an electronic display screen associated with each device; acquiring an image showing the devices in the panel with...