ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,980, issued on June 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Power supply system" was invented by Yusei Nakayashiki (Kariya, Japan), Masaya Takahashi (Kariya, Japan), Nobuhisa Yamaguchi (Kariya, Japan) and Eisuke Takahashi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply system includes: a power transmission circuit provided on the ground side; a high frequency generation circuit that supplies high-frequency electric power to the power transmission circuit; a measurement unit that measures a physical quantity corresponding to the degree of coupling between the power transmission circuit and a power reception c...