US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 8 for "Charging facility and management device of charging facility" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,054, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Charging facility and management device of charging facility" was invented by Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a control device receives the charging request, the control device executes a process including a step of acquiring position information, a step of executing elevating control when a position of a vehicle is within a first distance and a speed of the vehicle is equal to or less than a threshold value, a step of acquiring position information when a non-charging state is established, and a step of executing lowe...