Patents Assigned to Vutility, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20250060445
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and techniques for self-correcting current measuring are disclosed. Advanced material inductive measuring devices can obtain a reading of a monitored current in a monitored source. The advanced material allows the measuring device to operate at low temperatures disproportionate to saturation levels. Readings by the measuring device that are beyond a top-end limit of the measuring system or otherwise outside of a desired band can be transformed or transposed by employing a transformation to correct the reading to be within an acceptable ratio error band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Vutility, Inc.
    Inventor: Micheal M. Austin
  • Patent number: 12231498
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for electronically transmitting adaptively collapsible data across a network, whereby a baseline hierarchy of relationships based on precedence is generated for a set of data fields for data generated at an electrical system, and selecting one or more data fields for inclusion in a transmission package based on the hierarchy of relationships and a configurable condition, the configurable condition serving to potentially collapse (or deprecate) a data field, setting a status subfield to indicate inclusion or exclusion of the data field in a payload region of the transmission package and, when a particular data field is to be omitted, including only the status subfield for that data field and omitting the data corresponding to the data field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Vutility, Inc.
    Inventors: Micheal M. Austin, Kody Shook Brown
  • Publication number: 20240414457
    Abstract: An electricity usage monitor may include a coupling component to attach the electricity usage monitor to an electrical circuit to monitor electricity usage of the electrical circuit, an analog-digital converter (ADC) configured to convert analog current readings captured by the electricity usage monitor into digital values, a processor operably coupled to the ADC, and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium operably coupled to the processor and comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include determining a standard deviation of the digital values, based on the standard deviation, adjusting a gain of the ADC, and transmitting a signal to a server comprising the digital values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Vutility, Inc.
    Inventors: Micheal M. Austin, Kody Shook Brown
  • Patent number: 12164015
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and techniques for self-correcting current measuring are disclosed. Advanced material inductive measuring devices can obtain a reading of a monitored current in a monitored source. The advanced material allows the measuring device to operate at low temperatures disproportionate to saturation levels. Readings by the measuring device that are beyond a top-end limit of the measuring system or otherwise outside of a desired band can be transformed or transposed by employing a transformation to correct the reading to be within an acceptable ratio error band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Vutility, Inc.
    Inventor: Micheal Austin
  • Patent number: 12035086
    Abstract: An electricity usage monitor may include a coupling component to attach the electricity usage monitor to an electrical circuit to monitor electricity usage of the electrical circuit, an analog-digital converter (ADC) configured to convert analog current readings captured by the electricity usage monitor into digital values, a processor operably coupled to the ADC, and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium operably coupled to the processor and comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include determining a standard deviation of the digital values, based on the standard deviation, adjusting a gain of the ADC, and transmitting a signal to a server comprising the digital values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Vutility, Inc.
    Inventors: Micheal M. Austin, Kody Shook Brown
  • Patent number: 11991490
    Abstract: 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 measurement transmission from the encoder and to transmit the measurement transmission into a communication network for communication to a destination on the communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Vutility, Inc.
    Inventors: Micheal M. Austin, Kody Shook Brown
  • Patent number: 11874361
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and techniques for self-correcting current measuring are disclosed. Advanced material inductive measuring devices can obtain a reading of a monitored current in a monitored source. The advanced material allows the measuring device to operate at low temperatures disproportionate to saturation levels. Readings by the measuring device that are beyond a top-end limit of the measuring system or otherwise outside of a desired band can be transformed or transposed by employing a transformation to correct the reading to be within an acceptable ratio error band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Vutility, Inc.
    Inventor: Micheal M. Austin
  • Patent number: 11661776
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hinge, such as for housings for devices, such as a split-core current transformer. The housings can include hinges and housing parts to be rotatably coupled together at such hinges that can be injection molded. A hinge of a housing can include a first knuckle and a second knuckle, which can be integrally formed with or coupled to a first housing part and each are configured to receive an end of a hinge pin. One of the knuckles includes a knuckle slot to provide radial access for a cut-away portion of a hinge pin to pass through. At assembly of the first housing part to a second housing part, a first hinge pin end is to be disposed within an opening of the first knuckle and a second hinge pin end is to be disposed within the second knuckle after passage of the key portion through the knuckle slot of the second knuckle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Vutility, Inc.
    Inventor: Micheal M. Austin
  • Patent number: 11205927
    Abstract: Induction powered electrical current monitoring, and related devices, apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed. An electricity current monitoring device can include an inductive energy transfer medium, an energy storage device, a power management circuit, and a processing circuit. The inductive energy transfer medium can induce an electromotive force to produce electrical energy that can be stored in the energy storage device. A power management circuit can control storage of the electrical energy in the energy storage device and can control release of the electrical energy from the energy storage device. The processing circuit can measure the electrical current in the monitored energy source based on the fluctuating magnetic field generated by the inductive energy transfer medium. The processing circuit is electrically coupled to the power management circuit to be powered using the electrical energy released from the energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Vutiliti, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen K. Ellis, Kody S. Brown
  • Patent number: 10615641
    Abstract: Induction powered electrical current monitoring, and related devices, apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed. An electricity current monitoring device can include an inductive energy transfer medium, an energy storage device, a power management circuit, and a processing circuit. The inductive energy transfer medium can induce an electromotive force to produce electrical energy that can be stored in the energy storage device. A power management circuit can control storage of the electrical energy in the energy storage device and can control release of the electrical energy from the energy storage device. The processing circuit can measure the electrical current in the monitored energy source based on the fluctuating magnetic field generated by the inductive energy transfer medium. The processing circuit is electrically coupled to the power management circuit to be powered using the electrical energy released from the energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Vutiliti, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen K. Ellis, Kody S. Brown
  • Patent number: D931820
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Vutiliti, Inc.
    Inventors: Micheal M. Austin, Matthew G. Barber, Stephen K. Ellis