ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,748, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Masato Shigenaga (Utsunomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle, includes: an automatic parking control unit that performs automatic parking control, and a non-contact charging control unit that performs non-contact charging control. Further, while the automatic parking control unit performs the automatic parking control, the non-contact charging control unit specifies radio communication information associated with a parking space of a parking target with reference to...