ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,204, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Charge-and-discharge management system" was invented by Miho Saisho (Kobe, Japan), Kiyota Taniguchi (Hyogo-ken, Japan), Aya Sato (Nagoya, Japan), Yuki Ito (Kasugai, Japan), Katsushi Saito (Nagakute, Japan), Masato Koutari (Kakogawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Tatsumi (Kakogawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of a charge-and-discharge spot can be promoted. A charge-and-discharge management system includes a setting controller that sets an incentive linked with a charge-and-discharge spot for each charge-and-discharge spot and a presentation contro...