ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,073, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device" was invented by Takuya Itoh (Toyota, Japan) and Masato Chiba (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for controlling a power supply system including a DC-to-DC converter that supplies power of a power supply source to a load, an alternator that is connected in parallel with DC-to-DC converter so as to be capable of supplying power generated by rotation of the engine to the load, and a battery that is connected to the load so as to be capable of supplying power, the control device comprising: an acquisition unit that ac...