ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,429, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Power management system" was invented by Shunsuke Kobuna (Mishima, Japan), Masato Ehara (Gotenba, Japan) and Yusuke Horii (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management system for managing at least one power generation system connected to an electrical grid and at least one energy storage device connected to the electrical grid, wherein the energy storage device is charged or discharged in a time period in which the reliability of the prediction of the amount of power generation and the power demand per time period is high based on a predict...