US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 25 for "System power supply structure, backup power supply device, and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,478, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System power supply structure, backup power supply device, and control method" was invented by Tatsunori Mori (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system power supply structure comprising: a power supply source; a plurality of systems each requiring a predetermined functional safety; and a plurality of relays inserted between the power supply source and the plurality of systems, wherein a system requiring the same functional safety among the plurality of systems is connected in parallel to the same relay among the plurality of relays."

The pat...