US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 9 for "Power management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,278, issued on June 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power management system" was invented by Hisashi Fujisawa (Toyota, Japan), Shigeki Kinomura (Toyota, Japan), Atsushi Oki (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroki Takabatake (Chiryu, Japan) and Hiromitsu Fujii (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management system includes: a server that manages a status of reservation for use of a shop by a user who uses an electrically powered vehicle in which a battery is mounted and that performs supply/demand adjustment for power in a power grid connected to the shop; and a power charging/discharging station installed in ...