US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Feb. 17 for "Ground power supply apparatus, noncontact power supply system, control method for ground power supply apparatus, and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,039, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Ground power supply apparatus, noncontact power supply system, control method for ground power supply apparatus, and computer program" was invented by Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Kazutaka Kimura (Mishima, Japan), Makoto Hashimoto (Seto, Japan), Masaki Kanesaki (Susono, Japan), Keisuke Tani (Kariya, Japan), Nobuhisa Yamaguchi (Kariya, Japan), Kazuyoshi Obayashi (Kariya, Japan) and Yuichi Takemura (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground power supply apparatus is provided with a control device configured to ...