US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Control device for power feeding during traveling" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,669, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for power feeding during traveling" was invented by Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Masato Maemura (Nisshin, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan) and Ryosuke Ikemura (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for power feeding during traveling includes a processor. Further, when a living object or a metal foreign object is detected around a primary coil of a power transfer device that transfers power to a power reception device of a vehicle that is traveling, the processor deletes identification information on the primary ...