ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,317, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle power supply system" was invented by Kouji Mazaki (Kariya, Japan), Nobuhisa Yamaguchi (Kariya, Japan) and Mitsuru Shibanuma (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle power supply system is configured to supply power to a vehicle from a power supply apparatus laid on a power supply lane of a vehicle travel path, the power supply apparatus includes a plurality of power supply segments laid in a preset interval along the power supply lane, and a controller configured to control the plurality of power supply segments. The controller is configured ...