ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,775, issued on April 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device" was invented by Takayuki Sakurai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for controlling charging and discharging of power storage systems includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an intention to participate in a DR for adjusting a power supply and demand balance in a power grid from consumers when the DR is contracted in a power transaction; a resource ensuring unit configured to ensure, from the power storage systems, a power resource that the power storage systems are able to supply to the power grid during an execution...