US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,772, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Shu Nakayama (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for an in-vehicle power supply system, comprising: a main power supply that supplies electric power to a load mounted on a vehicle; a redundant power supply that includes a capacitor for storing electric power and supplies electric power from the capacitor to the load when the main power supply fails; and a relay that switches the power supply source to the load to either the main power supply or the redundant power supply, wherein after the ignition of th...