US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 22 for "Contactless power supply system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,552, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Contactless power supply 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 contactless power supply system that supplies power from a power supply device in a road to a power reception device in a vehicle. Further, the power supply device includes: first and second communication devices to execute wide-area and a short-range wireless communications, respectively with the power reception device; and an acceptable value...