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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard A Balch, North Hampton, NH (US);
Marjorie J Mancuso, Exeter, NH (US);
Susan D Dastous, Milford, NH (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G04F / ; G04B / ; G01R / ; G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
368-9 ; 368 10 ; 368 28 ; 3241 / ; 324116 ; 364483 ;
Abstract
A Method and apparatus for identifying events for making changes to a meter register configuration. In the one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of storing event data, including event dates, in a meter register memory, the event data being stored in a floating date format or in a fixed date format, and processing the event data to determine whether a current date corresponds to an event date.