ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,453, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan), NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan), Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Power system" was invented by Takahiro Kinoshita (Tokyo) and Ryo Shirasawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power system includes a central unit, a zone unit capable of communicating with the central unit, and a downstream electric wire configured to electrically connect a predetermined downstream unit to the zone unit. A central processor of the central unit executes processing including transmitting electric wire c...