US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Nov. 3 for "Aggregator system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,401, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Aggregator system" was invented by Tomoya Yamasaki (Tokyo), Noriyuki Takeshita (Tokyo), Hiroshi Yunoue (Tokyo) and Shinpei Ohyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aggregator system outputting a control instruction relating to electric power to a consumer consuming electric power, in accordance with a variation of a power generation amount of a power supply company, the aggregator system predicting adjustment power that is an adjustable amount of received power according to each of facilities of the consumer and outputting a control instruction for adjusting received...