ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,359, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus for smart grid" was invented by Katsushi Saito (Nagakute, Japan), Kohki Nakamura (Okazaki, Japan) and Hideyuki Nagai (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart grid information processing apparatus is applied to a smart grid including a transmission grid being connected to a plurality of electrical equipment units and a communication network transmitting information of at least an amount of electric energy transmitted through the transmission grid. The information processing apparatus is configured to exe...