US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 28 for "Power management apparatus and power management method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,139, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power management apparatus and power management method" was invented by Toru Nakamura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a server, an acquisition unit obtains, from a vehicle through a communication apparatus, history information indicating that demand supply of electric power has been performed for a power grid PG, and information on the state of charge of a battery. A control unit determines priorities of a plurality of DERs for a DR request. The control unit determines a priority of the vehicle so that the vehicle is less likely to be selec...