ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,708, issued on May 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Communication failure handling device and method in VPP" was invented by Sachio Toyora (Gotemba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information on a charging/discharging operation in a second period which is longer than a first period is transmitted as a control instruction from a control server. A communication failure handling device stores the control instruction transmitted in a cycle of the first period from the control server in a memory that is able to be accessed by an electric-vehicle power station regardless of a communication state between the c...