ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,890, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Ground power supply apparatus and power supply method" was invented by Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan), Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Shuntaro Okazaki (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan) and Kazuhisa Matsuda (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a ground power supply apparatus judges if it has received from one moving body among a plurality of moving bodies a first signal notifying it that the one moving body has become an immobilized state on an electrified road at which a ground power supply apparatus...