ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,290, issued on June 17, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo) and GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Relay control apparatus" was invented by Masaki Shibuya (Makinohara, Japan), Takuya Oki (Makinohara, Japan), Kyohei Yamamoto (Makinohara, Japan), Shoichi Arimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Ryuichi Ito (Kyoto, Japan) and Kentaro Ushio (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay control apparatus for controlling a latching relay including a closing side coil and an opening side coil, the relay control apparatus including a power supply control unit including a power supply resistor and a power supply switch, a relay close control...