ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,789, issued on July 28, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicular power control system" was invented by Hayato Yamaguchi (Makinohara, Japan), Sadaharu Okuda (Makinohara, Japan) and Ryoichi Murata (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a low voltage battery is exhausted, power necessary for starting up is supplied from a simple power supply connected to an ACC socket to a vehicle side. The power of the simple power supply is supplied to power supply terminals of a DC/DC converter and other loads, and is used to activate the DC/DC converter. After the DC/DC converter is activated, power on a high voltage battery ...