ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,541, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Solar controller, method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle" was invented by Tetsuro Nakamura (Nagoya, Japan), Masahiro Takahashi (Toyota, Japan) and Akinori Kawamura (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar controller is configured to control a solar unit including a solar panel, a step-up and step-down DC-DC converter configured to receive electric power generated by the solar panel, convert the received electric power to a predetermined electric power, and output the predetermined electric power, and a regulator circuit provided be...