ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,499, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Noncontact power supply device" was invented by Naoki Iwata (Kasugai, Japan), Osamu Yamashita (Toyota, Japan), Shinjiro Saigusa (Toyota, Japan), Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Katsuya Kobayashi (Okazaki, Japan) and Sungmin Cho (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noncontact power supply device provided with one or more coil units and a cover housing the coil units inside of it. The cover is formed by joining a first sheet arranged at one surface sides of front and back surfaces of the coil units and a second sheet arranged at the other surfa...