ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,551, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device, moving object, and control method" was invented by Daiko Tsutsumi (Wako, Japan), Akinori Kita (Wako, Japan), Minato Nakano (Wako, Japan) and Koji Hosono (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a battery output limit value that is a maximum value of electric power that can be supplied from a battery to an electric load, and a control unit configured to, when electric power supplied from a first battery to a first electric load is expected to exceed a first...