ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,353, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Power supply system" was invented by Tetsuo Morita (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply system includes: electrical loads; a first system including a first power supply that outputs a power supply voltage; a second system including a second power supply that includes a storage battery; an inter-system switch; an abnormality determination unit that determines whether an abnormality has occurred in the first system; and a state control unit that opens the inter-system switch when it is determined that an abnormality has occurred in the first s...