ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,583, issued on July 15, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Charging control method, program, and charging control system" was invented by Koji Arimura (Osaka, Japan), Eiji Kawamoto (Osaka, Japan), Shimpei Hamaguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Hideo Morita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging control method includes setting at least a first threshold value and a second threshold value larger than the first threshold value as threshold values with respect to a remaining capacity of a storage battery unit included in each of a plurality of work devices. The method includes outp...