ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,519, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electric power control system and electric power control method" was invented by Toru Kimura (Offenbach/Am Main, Germany), Martin Kopp (Offenbach/Am Main, Germany), Christian Koebel (Offenbach/Am Main, Germany) and Hisashi Nagaoka (Offenbach/Am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A electric power control system for controlling charge-discharge operation of a battery mounted on a vehicle includes: a plurality of computers, each operating so as to hold a distributed ledger identical to each other; a generation unit for generating transaction data including ...