ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,366, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Management server and management method" was invented by Toru Nakamura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CEMS server manages an amount of demanded electric power of consumer facilities organized into groups. The groups include at least two consumer facilities of which amounts of demanded electric power are correlated with each other. One of the at least two consumer facilities includes an HEMS server that transmits an amount of demanded electric power of the corresponding consumer facility to the CEMS server every first period. The CEMS server s...