ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,852, issued on March 11, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Cart gate" was invented by Masakazu Kato (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan) and Sadatoshi Oishi (Fuji Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a cart gate for storage of carts that have a power reception device includes a pair of guides spaced from each other in a cart-width direction. The guides extend along a forward cart direction. A power transmission device is mounted on a portion of one of the guides. The power transmission device is configured to provide power, in a non-contact manner, to a power reception device on a cart that is betw...