US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 14 for "Server and power management system for prioritizing demand response vehicles used for increasing power demand" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,949, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Server and power management system for prioritizing demand response vehicles used for increasing power demand" was invented by Tomoya Takahashi (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server includes a processing device. The server manages a plurality of vehicles. The processing device sets priority levels for the vehicles. The processing device sets the priority level of a vehicle in which its switching device is in a closed state to be higher than the priority level of a vehicle in which its switching device is in an open state. The processing devi...