ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,973, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Contactless charging device and contactless charging method" was invented by Takahiro Hirano (Gotemba, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan), Ryosuke Ikemura (Susono, Japan), Yohei Arino (Nagoya, Japan), Masaki Ito (Toyota, Japan) and Yuki Takahashi (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a contactless charging device performs a process including: acquiring vehicle information when a vehicle is present above a power transmitting device; permitting charging when it is determined that the vehicle is an electrically powered vehicle used as a ...