US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Jan. 27 for "Monitoring device, management system, and management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,984, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Monitoring device, management system, and management method" was invented by Hiroyuki Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiko Yamada (Hyogo, Japan) and Koji Hashimoto (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The life of a power storage pack to be mounted on an electric vehicle is prolonged while maintaining user convenience. A monitoring device (1) communicates with a storage device (4) storing power storage packs (2) to be mounted on a electric vehicle (3) traveling at a low speed in a predetermined area. An acquisition unit o...