ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,013, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power management device" was invented by Sachio Toyora (Gotemba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The power management device includes a processor that functions to manage power exchange in a power system including a virtual power plant, and the processor includes a processor that, when an abnormality occurs in the power system and a cause of the abnormality is a voltage abnormality, causes the virtual power plant to exchange electric power only in one direction for suppressing the power abnormality, and when the cause of the abnormality is a frequenc...