ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,782, issued on July 28, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Power supply/demand adjusting method and power supply/demand management device" was invented by Yutaka Yamauchi (Himeji, Japan), Jun Asakura (Kakogawa, Japan), Hideki Sakata (Nishinomiya, Japan), Hideyuki Nagai (Nagoya, Japan), Masanori Iechika (Toyota, Japan) and Yasuhiko Ikeda (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply/demand adjusting method disclosed here is a method for adjusting power supply and demand between a power transmission/distribution system and a storage battery mounted on an electric vehicle. The method includes the...