ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,836, issued on July 22, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Upper power management device, power interchange control method, and recording medium" was invented by Masao Ichi (Tokyo), Shingo Suzuki (Tokyo), Takuma Mitsunaga (Tokyo), Katsuo Naoi (Tokyo) and Hisakazu Uto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper power management device includes: an update unit that updates a target value of interest based on a received power value of electric power received by a first power feeding system that is making a power transmission request, and a transmitted power value of electric power transmitted by a second power feeding system that is...