US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Wireless power transfer system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,515, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Wireless power transfer system" was invented by Masato Maemura (Nisshin, Japan), Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan) and Ryosuke Ikemura (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wireless power transfer system configured to contactlessly transfer power from a supply device in a road to a vehicle, the vehicle includes a plurality of power receiving devices configured to receive power from the supply device, and a power transfer ECU is configured to set, based on state information from the vehicle, a power transfer pattern b...