ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,262, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Energy storage system" was invented by Youichi Kageyama (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Higashide (Osaka, Japan), Katsunori Atago (Fukushima, Japan), Kazuo Takenaka (Osaka, Japan), Hisao Hiragi (Osaka, Japan), Yugo Setsu (Osaka, Japan), Hiroki Nishinaka (Osaka, Japan) and Tsukasa Onodera (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage system includes a storage unit, a charging circuit configured to supply a charging current to the storage unit, and a controller connected to the storage unit. The storage unit includes plural...