ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,146, issued on June 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Supplying accumulated battery power from a vehicle to the power system" was invented by Yusuke Okubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a charging port, an in-vehicle battery, a control apparatus comprising one or more processors. The control apparatus is configured to control power supply in response to reception of a power supply request. The one or more processors perform setting a charge start time, starting the power supply to the power system if the power supply request is received before the charge start time, controlling the power of the powe...