ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,644, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Power supply controller" was invented by Takuji Matsubara (Aichi-ken, Japan), Osamu Yumita (Aichi-ken, Japan), Naoki Hasegawa (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Sa Kano (Aichi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The power supply controller controls the supply of electric power from a first power supply source to a predetermined facility having a first power supply destination and a second power supply destination, and also controls the supply of electric power to the predetermined facility from the second power supply source that is powered by a battery installe...