ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,672, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power management system, vehicle, and management server" was invented by Masato Ehara (Gotemba, Japan), Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan), Yuki Takahashi (Susono, Japan), Tomoya Takahashi (Ebina, Japan), Tomoyuki Kubota (Susono, Japan), Sachio Toyora (Gotemba, Japan), Keisuke Fukuoka (Fujieda, Japan), Zidan Xu (Yokohama, Japan), Wenfeng Liang (Yokohama, Japan) and Hiroki Murata (Gotemba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management system includes a vehicle and a charging or discharging lane. The charging or discharging lane configured to execute a...