G01D 4/002
Remote reading of utility meters
Official title: {Remote reading of utility meters}
G01D4/002 (Remote reading of utility meters) appears on 1,653 US grants and 2,006 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01D- Granted patents
- 1,653
- Published applications
- 2,006
- Assignees
- 729
- Inventors
- 3,003
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 12 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 17 | 0 |
| 2001 | 19 | 5 |
| 2002 | 11 | 31 |
| 2003 | 14 | 29 |
| 2004 | 13 | 40 |
| 2005 | 15 | 43 |
| 2006 | 33 | 63 |
| 2007 | 51 | 62 |
| 2008 | 32 | 118 |
| 2009 | 30 | 79 |
| 2010 | 49 | 82 |
| 2011 | 65 | 134 |
| 2012 | 74 | 143 |
| 2013 | 91 | 151 |
| 2014 | 109 | 155 |
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| 2018 | 75 | 87 |
| 2019 | 95 | 90 |
| 2020 | 85 | 105 |
| 2021 | 78 | 72 |
| 2022 | 83 | 56 |
| 2023 | 74 | 52 |
| 2024 | 36 | 45 |
| 2025 | 39 | 33 |
| 2026 | 25 | 25 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Gas meter15 Sep 2026US 12,736,373 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Method, meter, and system for data audit trail1 Sep 2026US 12,723,895 B2Landis+Gyr, Inc.
- Methods and systems for intelligent metering of natrural gas25 Aug 2026US 12,716,760 B2Chengdu Qinchuan Iot Technology Co., Ltd.
- Restriction of utility services without full service disconnect18 Aug 2026US 12,710,289 B2Itron, Inc.
- Security through layers in an intelligent electronic device18 Aug 2026US 12,711,205 B2Ei Electronics LLC
- Validating a reading from an analog flow meter1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301435 A1Waltero Holding AB
- Method for obtaining measurement data from a meter24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287393 A1Landis+Gyr Technology, Inc.
- Electrical parameter measuring device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287618 A1Solfacil Energia Solar Tecnologia E Servicos Financeiros Ltda
- Water and energy monitoring components and systems and methods of use thereof13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235429 A1Shower Canary Limited
- Smart infrastructure control systems (sics) security monitoring and defense13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238666 A1Landis+Gyr Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for monitoring and controlling remote devices1,585US 6,437,692 B1StatSignal Systems, Inc. · 2002
- System and method for monitoring and controlling remote devices596US 7,053,767 B2StatSignal Systems, Inc. · 2006
- Appliance interface apparatus and automated residence management system512US 5,706,191 AGas Research Institute · 1998
- Vehicle locating and communicating method and apparatus using cellular telephone network486US 5,299,132 ABy-Word Technologies, Inc. · 1994
- System and method for monitoring and controlling remote devices484US 7,468,661 B2Hunt Technologies, Inc. · 2008