US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on Sept. 29 for "Demand response optimization" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,158, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Demand response optimization" was invented by Norman Lu (Fairview, Texas) and Maximilian Parness (Takoma Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining a degradation of one or more mobile energy storage (MES) and one or more fixed energy storage (FES) for a location at a future time and determining a combined energy capacity of the one or more MES and FES at the future time based on the degradation."

The patent was filed on Feb. 15, 2022, under Application No. 17/671,868.

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