ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,396, issued on July 14, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Power source, supervisory apparatus and control system" was invented by Yoshinori Morita (Kariya-city, Japan), Kohei Yamamoto (Kariya-city, Japan) and Yasunori Kozuki (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power source supervisory apparatus is provided with a connection path that connects between a first path and a second path, an inter-path switch SW provided on the connection path, a current limiting element disposed to be in series to the inter-path switch SW on the connection path enabling a conduction from a first path s...