ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,260, issued on Nov. 25, 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 includes a storage device, a communication device, and a processing device. The storage device stores DR location information and DR period information. The communication device is configured to communicate with a provider server that stores a database indicating an available period and a use start location of ...