US Patent Issued to BRUSA ELEKTRONIK on Sept. 22 for "Apparatus for and method of guiding an electric vehicle" (German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,555, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to BRUSA ELEKTRONIK AG (Buchs, Switzerland).

"Apparatus for and method of guiding an electric vehicle" was invented by Paolo Lombardo (Munich), Martin Weber (Munich), Samuel Van De Velde (Lochristi, Belgium) and Stefan Raabe (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method of determining relative position of a ground coil and a vehicle coil, enabling an electric vehicle to be guided to a position at which energy is transferable between the ground and vehicle coils. Position signaling devices are mountable relative to the ground and vehicle coils. At least one signaling device is as...