ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,079, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Power supply device for controlling voltage" was invented by Ryo Oshima (Wako, Japan), Koichi Tsuno (Wako, Japan) and Toshio Inoue (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes calculating power consumption of a DC-DC converter, controlling the DC-DC converter so that an output direct current voltage output from the DC-DC converter becomes higher than a target voltage preset in the DC-DC converter when a power consumption is less than first power, and controlling the DC-DC converter so that the output direct current voltage output from the DC-DC co...