US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 25 for "Power supply mat, noncontact power supply system, and moving body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,452, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power supply mat, noncontact power supply system, and moving body" was invented by Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan) and Sungmin Cho (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply mat includes a power transmission coil configured to transmit electric power supplied from an external power supply or internal power supply to a moving body provided with a power reception coil by noncontact, a covering sheet configured to cover the power transmission coil, and a light emitting device configured to emit light toward the outside when detecting the mo...