ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,842, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SIEMENS INDUSTRY INC. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Overload protection system includes a load management system having a monitoring relay with a "threshold hysteresis" built-in" was invented by Nezar Alattar (Buford, Ga.), Tim Curtis (Tucker, Ga.), Gustavo Cortes Rico (Suwanee, Ga.), Carlos Flores Silguero (Doraville, Ga.) and Hector Malacara (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overload protection system includes a panelboard and a load management system (LMS) which is configured to constantly measure the total amount of power being used at the panelboard such that when the total amount...