ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,868, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NExT-e Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).

"Control device, power conversion system, power supply device, computer-readable storage medium, and control method" was invented by Fumiaki Nakao (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takashi Yagi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for controlling output power, which is power outputted by a power supply apparatus to a power grid, includes an output control unit which causes the power supply apparatus to operate in any one mode of (i) a first mode in which magnitude of the output power is increased such that an absolute value of a fluctuation rate ...