US Patent Issued to IHI on Oct. 14 for "Demand supply planning method and demand supply planning apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,948, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Koto-ku, Japan).

"Demand supply planning method and demand supply planning apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Hamaguchi (Koto-ku, Japan), Akinobu Inamura (Koto-ku, Japan), Yuji Koguma (Koto-ku, Japan), Sho Kazikura (Koto-ku, Japan) and Daiki Kojima (Koto-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A demand supply planning method generates a supply-demand plan including information that specifies operation of an energy generation unit for each unit time in a microgrid having energy generation units being connected to an external energy supply system and generating energy while consuming ...