ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,671, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Masato Maemura (Nisshin, Japan), Ryosuke Ikemura (Susono, Japan) and Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device is mounted on a vehicle that includes a power receiving device that receives power transmitted in a non-contact manner from a ground-side supply device and a battery that charges the power received by the power receiving device. The drive frequency determined based on the requested power of the side is set as the first drive frequenc...