ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,670, issued on April 22, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power storage control system and power storage control method" was invented by Yoshiyuki Nasuno (Osaka, Japan) and Haruya Mori (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage control system reduces the operating cost in a power storage system, and comprises a monitoring section and a charge/discharge control section. The monitoring section monitors a prescribed index value that correlates with the degradation degree of a storage battery for each storage battery included in a plurality of power storage systems. The charge/discharge control section contr...