US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 15 for "Rental fee calculation device, rental fee calculation method, and rental fee calculation program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,458, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Rental fee calculation device, rental fee calculation method, and rental fee calculation program" was invented by Hiroshi Moriyama (Tokyo), Kentaro Sugimura (Saitama, Japan), Michiyo Inoue (Tokyo) and Kotaro Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rental fee calculation device for calculating a rental fee for renting a battery to be rented when the battery is rented to a user via a battery storage apparatus configured to allow the battery to be attached and detached includes: a first fee calculation unit configured to calculate a first fee based on a rent...