US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, BRIDGESTONE, NSK on Aug. 5 for "Wireless power reception system, moving body, and wheel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,737, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (Tokyo), BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo) and NSK Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Wireless power reception system, moving body, and wheel" was invented by Hiroshi Fujimoto (Tokyo), Osamu Shimizu (Tokyo), Keizo Akutagawa (Tokyo), Yasumichi Wakao (Tokyo), Isao Kuwayama (Tokyo) and Daisuke Gunji (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power reception system 1 includes: a power reception device 5 including a power reception coil 51 that receives power supplied wirelessly from a power transmission coil 41 of a power transmission device 4 installed in a road surface, at least a porti...