US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 7 for "Management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,334, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Management system" was invented by Kojiro Takasu (Tokyo), Shigeki Edamatsu (Wako, Japan), Hirotaka Endo (Wako, Japan) and Yuka Kuramochi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management system includes a management server that can communicate information with a battery station that houses a battery that is lent based on a usage agreement. The management server acquires the lending date and time at which the battery is lent from the battery station, and the return date and time at which the battery is returned to the battery station during the usage agreement perio...