US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR, Renault on April 22 for "Charge-discharge control system and charge-discharge control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,686, issued on April 22, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan) and Renault SAS (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Charge-discharge control system and charge-discharge control method" was invented by Keigo Ikezoe (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenta Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kensuke Murai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge-discharge control system is provided in which each of a plurality of charge-discharge elements autonomously controls charging-discharging. The charge-discharge control system includes an external control device that broadcasts a control signal to the charge-discharge elements that perform...