ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,796, issued on May 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"E-fleet aggregator" was invented by Tomoki Ito (Hyogo, Japan), Akinori Yukimasa (Nara, Japan), Satoshi Ohara (Osaka, Japan), Yasuyuki Shintani (Hyogo, Japan) and Kimihiko Nakatsukasa (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a method of controlling an EV charger which is located at a charging site by a controller. The controller provides a charging signal thereto for controlling the EV charger to operate within a threshold power that is allowable at a management site. The method comprising re...