ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,385, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Non-contact charging system" was invented by Hirotaka Saito (Sunto-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-contact charging system includes: a power transmission coil; a living body detector; a vehicle; a power reception coil; an auxiliary battery; and a control device. Further, the control device adjust a detection range of the living body detector, and starts the charging control in a case where the control device determines that the charging control is not executed and that a state in which there is no living body detected within the detection ra...