US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 28 for "Elevating operation apparatus and operation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,192, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Elevating operation apparatus and operation method" was invented by Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan) and Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevating operation apparatus includes: an obtaining device configured to obtain a first information and a second information, wherein the first information indicates whether or not one vehicle, which has a power receiving unit for wireless electric power supply, includes an elevating mechanism for moving the power receiving unit in a height direction of the one vehicle, and the second...