ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,592, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Power supply device" was invented by Kazutaka Kimura (Mishima, Japan), Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Makoto Hashimoto (Seto, Japan), Nobuhisa Yamaguchi (Kariya, Japan), Keisuke Tani (Kariya, Japan), Kazuyoshi Obayashi (Kariya, Japan), Masaki Kanesaki (Susono, Japan) and Yuichi Takemura (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply device that wirelessly transmits power includes: a DC power source; an inverter circuit connected to the DC power source; a resonance circuit connected to the inverter circuit and...