ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,788, issued on July 28, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device" was invented by Shinnosuke Sakata (Tokyo) and Hirofumi Yabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a vehicle includes auxiliary equipment, an auxiliary battery, at least one processor, and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor. The auxiliary battery is configured to store electric power to be supplied to the auxiliary equipment. The processor is configured to execute processing including: temporarily executing voltage determination for determining whether a voltage of the auxiliary battery is equal to or less than a ...