ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,348, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan), SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo) and DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Electric power supply device, control method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Akira Umemoto (Nagakute, Japan), Shinichi Inoue (Okazaki, Japan), Shoya Shimosaka (Kobe, Japan) and Yukihiko Murakami (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power supply device installed in a vehicle includes a relay provided between a high-voltage battery and one or more pieces of in-vehicle equipment, and a processor. The processor is configured to, based on a state of a main switch conf...