ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,338, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power storage system" was invented by Yusuke Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "IDs are appropriately assigned to a plurality of slave devices.A power storage system includes: a master device including a first controller, and a pair of first communication terminals; and a slave device including a second controller, a pair of second communication terminals, and a battery unit, wherein the slave device includes a pair of first switches series-connected to the pair of second communication terminals; the pair of first communication ter...