US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Feb. 17 for "Vehicle including solar photovoltaic power generation device and dual battery control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,008, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle including solar photovoltaic power generation device and dual battery control" was invented by Maya Kawabe (Tokyo), Yoshitaka Arai (Tokyo), Mami Osawa (Tokyo) and Kazuki Furuta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of a control device of a vehicle performs control to set a first switch to an on state such that power generated by a solar photovoltaic power generation device is supplied to a high-voltage battery while the vehicle is in a ready-to-travel state; in response to a transition from the ready-to-travel state to a parked state, derives a predict...