US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Control device, power management system, and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,814, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device, power management system, and control method" was invented by Tohru Nakamura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device includes a charger to which electric power is distributed from the distribution board, an acquisition unit for acquiring power consumption of one or more electric devices, an instruction unit for instructing suppression of the charging operation of the charger in accordance with the power consumption based on an instruction authority of the charging operation for the charger, and a management unit for g...