ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,464, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power adjusting device is configured to execute a process of acquiring vehicle information of a plurality of electric vehicles connected to a power utility grid, a process of classifying, based on the vehicle information, the electric vehicles into a plurality o...