ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,078, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Backup power supply system and moving vehicle" was invented by Yuta Nagatomi (Osaka, Japan), Masafumi Nakamura (Osaka, Japan), Masatoshi Nakase (Osaka, Japan), Hiroki Akashi (Osaka, Japan) and Kinya Kato (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backup power supply system is designed to supply, when a power supply has caused a failure, power from a first electrical storage device to a plurality of loads. The plurality of loads includes a first load and a second load. The first load is connected to a first power supply line....