ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,164, issued on March 3, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Power supply system and method for controlling power supply system" was invented by Akira Teranishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Ishizuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jaesun Hur (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply system is installed in a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode. The power supply system includes a first load circuit connected to a first load that operates using electric power from a main battery; a second load circuit connected to a second load that operates using electric power from the main battery or an additional batt...