ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,495, issued on April 15, was assigned to SOLAR JAPAN Co. LTD. (Suzaka, Japan).

"Networked solar power generation plant system and method of operating the same" was invented by Hidetsugu Nishihara (Suzaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a networked solar power generation plant system, solar power generation plants are virtually integrated for accurately and suitably discharge-outputting electric power stored in the networked solar power generation plants, at optional time and in an optional amount, to a power transmission network. Solar power storage battery units are provided as terminal units, the networked solar power gener...