ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,040, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Power storage system" was invented by Yasumichi Onuki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage system capable of appropriately increasing a temperature of a power storage device is provided. A power storage system (10) includes a battery (31) and a plurality of AC application units (33). The battery (31) includes a string (31b) which is formed by a plurality of cells (31a) connected in series to each other. The battery (31) includes a plurality of modules (35) which are formed by dividing the string (31b) into a plurality of substrings in serie...