ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,375, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electric power system" was invented by Nobuyuki Orihashi (Toyota, Japan), Shigeki Kinomura (Toyota, Japan), Tamaki Ozawa (Toyota, Japan) and Chiaki Kanda (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CEMS server obtains meteorological information and hydrogen station information. The CEMS server predicts a power demand of a microgrid after a designated period. When the power demand of the microgrid after the designated period exceeds contract power and when an amount of electric power to be reduced exceeds a prescribed value, the CEMS server generates a h...