ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,959, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Power supply control device and power supply control method" was invented by Takeshi Matsumoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a power supply control is configured to: in response to a failure of a main power supply being detected, execute a fail-safe control in which a connector is interrupted and electric power from a backup power supply is supplied to a second load; in response to a state value indicating a charging state of the backup power supply decreasing to a first threshold during the fail-safe control, execute an advance notic...