US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 4 for "Power supply system, power supply facility, and power supply method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,384, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power supply system, power supply facility, and power supply method" was invented by Masateru Nakamura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply system includes charging stands capable of supplying electric power to an electrified vehicle on the ground and each including a power supply unit, a movable unit including the power supply unit and moving between a first position at which the power supply unit is housed underground and a second position at which the power supply unit is exposed from the ground, an actuator moving the movable unit,...