ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,576, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus, power supply system, control method and program" was invented by Naoki Hanaoka (Tokyo), Toru Tanaka (Tokyo), Naomichi Nakamura (Tokyo) and Yuji Higuchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes circuitry configured to communicate with a second control apparatus at a different base from the control apparatus in a power supply system, before performing power interchange, lock at least one first power feeding path for a period of time, and control a converter and one or more breakers in a power feeding network based on the first power ...