ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,259, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Ground power supplying apparatus, method for controlling ground power supplying apparatus, and nontransitory computer recording medium" was invented by Ryosuke Ikemura (Susono, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan) and Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground power supplying apparatus provided with a power transmission apparatus having a resonance circuit and transmitting power to the vehicle and a control device shifting a state of the ground power supplying apparatus to a standby state when a predetermined suspension condition...