ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,503, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Power supply control method and power supply control device" was invented by Shinji Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshiyuki Koide (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenichi Gotou (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirotaka Koyama (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply control device includes a high-power battery, a low-power battery, a relay that electrically connects the high-power battery and the low-power battery, a power supply switch, and a controller that controls an on/off state of the relay. When a power supply state is a state in which power is suppli...