ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,843, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information transmission device" was invented by Kenichi Yamada (Nisshin, Japan), Toshiki Kashiwakura (Tokyo), Akane Umezu (Nagoya, Japan), Kayo Tsumoto (Nisshin, Japan), Yuta Shishime (Tokyo), Satoshi Komamine (Nagoya, Japan) and Kenji Ishiyama (Kasugai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information transmission device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit receives position information indicating the current position of the power supply vehicle from at least one of the power supply vehicle and the general vehicle w...