US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 1 for "Method for providing vehicle charging service, and vehicle charging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,106, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method for providing vehicle charging service, and vehicle charging system" was invented by Toshihiro Nakamura (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Katsuya Kobayashi (Okazaki, Japan), Hiroki Murata (Gotemba, Japan), Hiroshi Matsumori (Mishima, Japan), Naohiro Seo (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Akihiro Kusumoto (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is capable of receiving electric power supplied from a charger and capable of receiving electric power supplied from a charging mat. The charging mat is movable and capable of wireless power transfer. A method for pr...