ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,767, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery management system and battery management method" was invented by Junta Izumi (Nagoya, Japan), Kenji Kimura (Nagoya, Japan), Masakazu Habu (Toyota, Japan), Masanosuke Sufu (Toyota, Japan) and Makito Muramatsu (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The battery cellar includes a storage cabinet that stores a plurality of batteries, an AC/DC converter and a DC/DC converter electrically connected between the plurality of used batteries stored in the storage cabinet and a power system, and a server that controls the AC/DC converter and the DC/DC conv...