ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,276, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Server and power conditioning system" was invented by Atsushi Okubo (Nisshin, Japan), Kiyonori Yoshida (Toyota, Japan), Kotomi Asano (Toyota, Japan), Tamaki Ozawa (Toyota, Japan) and Yusuke Saigo (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server is a server of an aggregator that requests a power-conditioning resource to participate in demand response for adjusting electric power demand-supply balance in a power grid. The power-conditioning resource includes a plurality of vehicles that is managed by a provider and used to provide a service thereof. The...