ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,099, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power supply device, non-transistory computer readable storage medium, and power supply control system" was invented by Yoshimasa Watanabe (Sunto-gun, Japan), Kizuku Yamada (Susono, Japan), Masaki Ito (Toyota, Japan), Sakiko Yoshida (Mishima, Japan), Yuki Takahashi (Susono, Japan) and Tomonori Imamura (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a power supply device that supplies electric power to a motor-driven vehicle including a power storage device through one of wireless supply of electric power using a wireless system and wired sup...