ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,720, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"System, method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Daichi Watanabe (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided including a communication section that receives, from an external apparatus that can connect to a battery pack, battery pack information including first identification information of the battery pack and second identification information of an electric apparatus that utilizes electrical power accumulated in the battery pack, and an identification section that identifies the number of times the battery pack has bee...