ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,048, issued on July 8, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Battery charging control device for vehicle" was invented by Shinya Fujioka (Aki-gun, Japan), Masahiro Doi (Aki-gun, Japan), Yuki Ida (Aki-gun, Japan) and Hirotaka Sugie (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery charging control device for a vehicle is provided, which includes a motor, a high-voltage battery, a low-voltage battery, a charging connecting device, an auxiliary charging device, a temporary storage device, a storage device, a write processing device which performs write processing for writing and storing in the storage device infor...