ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,472, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Charging device and charging method" was invented by Akira Matsubara (Osaka Fu, Japan), Masahiro Seo (Osaka Fu, Japan), Eisuke Kobayashi (Kanagawa Ken, Japan) and Gentaro Takeda (Osaka Fu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging device is disclosed. A housing of the charging device has a placement surface on which an object to be charged is allowed to be placed. The object to be charged includes a first coil. The charging device includes a second coil and a controller. The second coil is housed in the housing at a position correspo...