ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,961, issued on April 8, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Power trading system and power trading method" was invented by Hibiki Saeki (Wako, Japan) and Takahiro Shinke (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power trading system includes an order reception unit configured to receive a sell order and a purchase order of power, and a power supply and demand planning unit configured to plan power supply and demand between a first contractor and a second contractor. When a total value of a power transmission and distribution distance between a third contractor who sells power and the second contractor and a power trans...