US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Aug. 12 for "Appliance management method, program, power distribution equipment, and appliance management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,294, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Appliance management method, program, power distribution equipment, and appliance management system" was invented by Akio Nakada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Eisuke Tabaru (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appliance management method is designed to make power distribution equipment, provided on a power supply channel, control and/or monitor an appliance to be electrically connected to the power distribution equipment. The appliance management method includes an authentication step and a management step. The authentic...