US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on Aug. 19 for "Electric vehicle, and charging and discharging facility, and system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,138, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Electric vehicle, and charging and discharging facility, and system" was invented by Hideki Sakata (Nishinomiya, Japan), Jun Asakura (Kakogawa, Japan), Yutaka Yamauchi (Himeji, Japan), Hideyuki Nagai (Nagoya, Japan), Masanori Iechika (Toyota, Japan) and Yasuhiko Ikeda (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new system is provided that enables a resource aggregator to smoothly use on-board batteries of electric vehicles as an energy resource. A user is allowed to select whether or not to permit interchange of electric power between a charging ...