ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,982, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device" was invented by Yuki Kudo (Susono, Japan), Kazutaka Kimura (Mishima, Japan), Kazuki Obata (Susono, Japan), Hiromitsu Kigure (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Satoshi Kikuchi (Hadano, Japan) and Yuta Maniwa (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A market electric power price predicting unit predicts a trading price of electric power traded in a P2P electric power trading market. The trading price includes a price of renewable energy electric power and a price of non-renewable energy electric power. A renewable energy index se...