ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,338, issued on July 28, was assigned to GS Yuasa International Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Management device, energy storage system, and method for constructing energy storage system" was invented by Hirokazu Ito (Kyoto, Japan), Syuichi Takemoto (Kyoto, Japan), Kenta Yoshimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Masayuki Iwasaki (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuo Haruki (Kyoto, Japan), Tatsuya Inoue (Kyoto, Japan), Tsutomu Ueno (Kyoto, Japan), Takafumi Akagi (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuya Yamashita (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management device includes: a first communication unit that receives state data of an energy storage device; a second communication unit...