ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,395, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Operation plan creation device, operation plan creation method, and operation plan creation program" was invented by Kenichi Hamaguchi (Tokyo), Akinobu Inamura (Tokyo) and Yuji Koguma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an operation plan creation device that creates an operation plan for a load device in a microgrid including a renewable energy generation device and the load device. The operation plan includes a plan for performing a start operation or a stop operation of the load device. The operation plan creation device includes a creation unit that create...