ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,264, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Method for operating storage battery system" was invented by Hiroyuki Abe (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of storage batteries are divided into a plurality of storage battery blocks. A useful life of each of the storage batteries is shorter than the project life. Total capacity of the plurality of storage batteries is equal to or greater than the product of capacity required for a project and a ratio of the project life to the useful life. The project life is divided into a plurality of periods. For each of the plurality of periods, a ...