ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,737, issued on June 17, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power control system and power 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 control system and method for suppressing purchase power peaks or controlling surplus power household consumption according to changes. The power control system comprises a monitoring unit, an electricity storage quantity acquisition unit, and an electricity storage controller. The monitoring unit monitors a generated power quantity which an electricity generator generates using renewable energy and a pu...