ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,164, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Energy collection location changing system" was invented by Kazutaka Kimura (Mishima, Japan), Hiroyuki Nakatani (Gotemba, Japan) and Masahiro Takahashi (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the energy collection location changing system, a power generation floating body and a collection station setting system are provided so as to be able to perform data communication with each other. The power generation floating body has a power generation storage unit for storing the power generation energy and a navigation unit for navigation of the own bas...