ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,135, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Power feeding apparatus, power feeding system, and control method" was invented by Tetsuo Sato (Fukushima, Japan) and Yuki Sugiyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power feeding apparatus includes: a power supplier that supplies power to devices connected to the power supplier, a controller including a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor controls power supplied by the power supplier; communicates with the connected devices; and to supply power to the connected devices, negotiates through a communicat...