ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,029, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Wireless power transfer system" was invented by Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Masato Maemura (Nisshin, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan) and Ryosuke Ikemura (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transfer system transfers power from a supply device on a road to a vehicle using contactless power transfer. Further, the vehicle includes: a plurality of power reception devices that receive power from the supply device; and a processor, and the processor: determines power to be received by each of the plurality of power reception devi...