Nicholas P Merricks

Title: Nicholas P. Merricks and Smart Demand-Side Response

Introduction

Nicholas P. Merricks is an inventor associated with Bourne, Great Britain, and Landis+Gyr AG. His patent work concerns energy data, privacy permissions, and smart demand-side response. The available information identifies 1 patent associated with him.

Latest Patents

Merricks is named on the patent “Systems and Techniques for Smart Demand Side Response Using Data Plane Architecture.” The invention describes a system that accesses energy-consumption communications from data sources at a premises and uses them to generate a premises data set. A privacy-management operation wraps the data set with permissions. When an entity requests access, the system checks those permissions and provides the data set if access is authorized.

Career Highlights

Merricks’s listed patent reflects work on managing energy-consumption data while controlling how that information is shared. The described approach combines premises data processing with permission-based access, supporting applications for smart demand-side response.

Collaborations

Merricks is associated with Landis+Gyr AG. Daire Kelly and Ross Catley are listed as coworkers; the available information does not specify their roles in the patent.

Conclusion

Nicholas P. Merricks’s patent focuses on privacy-aware access to premises energy data, connecting data management with smart demand-side response.