ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,763, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Power supply control device" was invented by Masafumi Yamamoto (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Takumi Masubuchi (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply control device includes: a plurality of power supply circuits; a control circuit that controls the power supply circuits; an output current monitor that monitors output currents of the power supply circuits; and a storage unit in which any one of a plurality of operation modes for controlling the power supply circuits is settable. The control circuit controls the power supply circuits...