US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 23 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,004, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Midori Sugiyama (Susono, Japan) and Yoshihiro Sakayanagi (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle capable of receiving electric power from a ground power supply device includes: a first communication device that wirelessly communicates with the ground power supply device by means of a first communication method; a second communication device that wirelessly communicates with the ground power supply device by means of a second communication method having a higher directivity than the first communication method; and...