ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,576, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power supply control device, power supply control program, and power supply control system" was invented by Masaki Ito (Toyota, Japan), Yuki Takahashi (Susono, Japan), Sakiko Yoshida (Mishima, Japan), Kizuku Yamada (Susono, Japan), Yoshimasa Watanabe (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Tomonori Imamura (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply control device according to the present disclosure includes a processor that generates control information for preferentially supplying electric power to a wide traveling lane when information on a disaster is acq...