ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,098, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Charging and discharging management device" was invented by Keiichi Ito (Kasai, Japan), Kohki Nakamura (Okazaki, Japan), Kimihiko Furukawa (Kakogawa, Japan), Shinya Inui (Kakogawa, Japan), Noriharu Kobayashi (Kakogawa, Japan) and Masaki Yugou (Kakogawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge and discharge management device disclosed herein includes an acquisition controller configured or programmed to acquire information on a predetermined deterioration acceleration element for on-vehicle batteries from a plurality of electric vehicles conne...