US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Efficient power transfer to electric vehicles" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,135, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Efficient power transfer to electric vehicles" was invented by Kenichi Takasaki (Shibuya, Japan), Sanehiro Furuichi (Setagaya-ku, Japan), Daisuke Maruyama (Yamato, Japan), Tooru Tabara (Yokohama, Japan), Yuhko Kanoh Hasegawa (Koto-ku, Japan), Taku Sasaki (Machida, Japan) and Shoichiro Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ability of a power transmission device to transfer electric charge in a power-transmission area at a particular point in time is identified. The ability comprises a threshold number of vehicles to which the pow...