US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 4 for "Vehicle, ground power supplying apparatus, and noncontact power supplying system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,379, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vehicle, ground power supplying apparatus, and noncontact power supplying system" was invented by Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan), Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Hiroya Chiba (Susono, Japan), Shuntaro Okazaki (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan), Kazuhisa Matsuda (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Ryosuke Ikemura (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle receiving power from a ground power supplying apparatus by noncontact includes: a vehicle side first communication device for directly or indirectly communicating with the ground powe...