ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,972, issued on April 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electric power agreement system and electric power agreement method" was invented by Yuta Okumura (Tokyo) and Shunsuke Kawano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is intended to reduce the occurrence of breakdown of a line facility due to variation between an agreement result and electric power actually flowing through a line. An electric power agreement system includes: an agreement result calculation unit that calculates an agreement result about each customer; a flow achievement calculation unit that calculates a flow achievement fo...