ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,544, issued on April 21, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Power supply control device and method for controlling same" was invented by Hojin Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply control apparatus, located in a battery system which supplies power to a driving device, including: a switching device disposed on a power supply path between the battery and the driving device to electrically connect or disconnect the battery and the driving device; a main controller configured to control whether the battery should supply power to the driving device or not by controlling the ...