ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,495, issued on June 16, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Secondary battery system, controller and control method for secondary battery system, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program for secondary battery system controller" was invented by Kimihiko Furukawa (Kakogawa, Japan), Kensaku Fukumoto (Kato, Japan) and Taijyu Morishita (Kasai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is configured to control distribution circuits of a plurality of battery modules. A first process determines a supplied power supplied to a heating device of each of the plurality of battery modules so th...