• EcoFactor (Redwood City, Calif.) obtained U.S. patent No. 8,556,188 for the use of geolocation data from smartphones and other mobile devices to optimize home energy management services, its 14th overall patent.

• BirdDog (Urbandale, Iowa) appointed Ric Chaney as vice president of sales.

Publication date: 11/18/2013

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