ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,413, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Power generation amount management system and power generation amount management method" was invented by Tohru Watanabe (Tokyo), Masato Utsumi (Tokyo), Ikuo Shigemori (Tokyo), Hiroshi Iimura (Tokyo), Hiroaki Ogawa (Tokyo) and Daisuke Hamaba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system refers to actual weather data made publicly available by a first institution, and creates a model that uses a value of a weather element for each section as an input and uses a value of a renewable energy power generation amount of the area as an output based on the actual value of the wea...