ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,728, issued on March 31, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Charging control system for in-vehicle battery" was invented by Tatsuhiro Kubo (Tokyo) and Minoru Omori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging control system for an in-vehicle battery is to be to be applied to a vehicle and includes a main battery, a sub battery, and a processor. The processor is configured to perform a first charging control and a second charging control. The processor is configured to: in the first charging control, charge the sub battery after a predetermined time is elapsed from time when the vehicle is placed into a traveling function sto...