US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on June 30 for "Aerial vehicles, charging stations and charging systems" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,268, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Aerial vehicles, charging stations and charging systems" was invented by Yanghe Liu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Hiroshi Ukegawa (South Lyon, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial vehicle is provided. The aerial vehicle may include a battery, a receiver for wirelessly receiving power to charge the battery, a vehicle magnetic levitation module providing a repelling force between the aerial vehicle and a charging station, and a controller controlling the vehicle magnetic levitatio...