ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,657, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Server device and electricity transaction system" was invented by Yuki Kudo (Susono, Japan), Kazutaka Kimura (Mishima, Japan), Kazuki Obata (Susono, Japan), Hiromitsu Kigure (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Satoshi Kikuchi (Hadano, Japan) and Yuta Maniwa (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server device includes a processor and a memory storing a program executed by the processor. The processor is configured to accept a tender for a transaction of electricity transfer in a parking lot, contract the transaction of electricity transfer corresponding t...