ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,111, issued on June 24, was assigned to Vutility Inc. (Sandy, Utah).
"Relative adaptive encoding" was invented by Micheal M. Austin (South Jordan, Utah) and Kody Shook Brown (West Jordan, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electricity usage monitor may include a coupling component to couple the electricity usage monitor to monitor an electrical circuit, a meter to measure electricity usage of the electrical circuit, an encoder to receive, from the meter, an electricity usage measurement to generate a measurement transmission based on the electricity usage measurement, and a communication interface configured to receive the measur...