US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 11 for "Method of managing electric power supply and demand, and server" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,362, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method of managing electric power supply and demand, and server" was invented by Mitsuaki Tomita (Toyota, Japan), Hiroshi Ashida (Aichi-ken, Japan), Kenji Tahara (Toyota, Japan), Tamaki Ozawa (Toyota, Japan), Takenori Shimizu (Inuyama, Japan) and Tetsuro Kuniyoshi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing electric power supply and demand with a computer includes sending, from the computer, a message for making a request of an electrified vehicle with a driver and a passenger to participate in a demand response for adjusting supply o...