ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,317, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power control device" was invented by Takuya Itoh (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power control device for controlling a power supply system, the power control device including a DCDC converter for supplying power of a battery to a load, and an alternator connected in parallel with a DCDC converter for supplying generated power to the load, the power control device including: a monitoring unit for monitoring a current output from DCDC converter to the load; and a control unit for controlling an operation of DCDC converter and the alternator,...