ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,306, issued on July 28, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power control system, power control device, and program" was invented by Yoshihiro Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan), Shuji Furui (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Nakao (Osaka, Japan) and Nobuki Matsui (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power control system for performing power control such that a target power set for a group including a plurality of consumers is not exceeded includes a server that generates control information, and a control device that controls power usage of an equipment device in accordance with the control information, and the server sets a ...