ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,566, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle configured to participate in demand response used for adjusting a power supply and demand balance in a power system" was invented by Masato Ehara (Gotemba, Japan), Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan), Yuki Takahashi (Susono, Japan), Tomoya Takahashi (Ebina, Japan), Tomoyuki Kubota (Susono, Japan), Sachio Toyora (Gotemba, Japan), Keisuke Fukuoka (Fujieda, Japan), Zidan Xu (Yokohama, Japan), Wenfeng Liang (Yokohama, Japan) and Hiroki Murata (Gotemba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is configured to participate in demand response used for adju...