ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,960, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power management system and power management method" was invented by Kazuhide Toda (Kyoto, Japan), Yasuhiro Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan), Yusuke Kishina (Kyoto, Japan), Noriyasu Kawakita (Kyoto, Japan), Takashi Inoue (Kyoto, Japan), Tomoya Shimomura (Kyoto, Japan), Kenji Ikeuchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroshi Yoshida (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device p...