ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,251, issued on April 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Management server, and control method of management server" was invented by Kazutaka Nakabe (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management server that manages lending and borrowing of a battery detachably provided in a moving body includes a lending management unit configured to determine an approval mode, which is one of an approval unnecessary mode in which permission for borrowing is granted to a borrower without receiving approval of a lender and an approval necessary mode in which permission for the borrowing is granted to the borrower after receivi...