ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,442, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Tatsuya Jinno (Wako, Japan) and Yasuhiro Nakada (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device acquires information regarding performance and running from each of a plurality of distributed power supplies; acquires a power demand amount from a plurality of demanders to which power is to be supplied by the plurality of distributed power supplies; acquires a selection criterion to be used at a time of selecting, from among the plurality of distributed power supplies, a distributed power ...