ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,165, issued on March 3, was assigned to AutoNetworks Technologies Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"On-vehicle back-up control device" was invented by Keisuke Wakazono (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kazuki Masuda (Yokkaichi, Japan), Takeshi Hasegawa (Yokkaichi, Japan), Yuki Sano (Osaka, Japan), Yukiyoshi Ueno (Toyota, Japan), Ryosuke Takahashi (Toyota, Japan) and Tatsunori Mori (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-vehicle backup control device includes a plurality of chargers each of which supplies a ...