ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,352, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Power supply control apparatus and power supply control method" was invented by Hirokazu Kanahara (Tokyo) and Yuki Sugiyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply control apparatus includes: a current supply switching section that switches between a current restricting state, in which a current to be supplied from a storage battery to electrical equipment is restricted to a predetermined upper limit current or less, and a current non-restricting state, in which a current exceeding the upper limit current is allowed to be supplied from the storage bat...