ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,093, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sense Labs Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Identifying devices connected to a smart plug" was invented by Ghinwa Fakhri Choueiter (Somerville, Mass.) and Jonah Wyman Petri (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart circuit breaker may provide a smart-circuit-breaker power monitoring signal that includes information about power consumption of devices connected to the smart circuit breaker. The smart-circuit-breaker power monitoring signal may be used in conjunction with power monitoring signals from the electrical mains of the building for providing information about the operation of devi...