US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 28 for "Light collecting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,947, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Light collecting device" was invented by Hideo Sakamoto (Toyota, Japan), Yoshinobu Nozaki (Anjyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Ogura (Ama, Japan), Hisashi Fujisawa (Toyota, Japan), Mitsuaki Tomita (Toyota, Japan), Yasunobu Seki (Nissin, Japan) and Shoichi Iwamoto (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Equipped with a solar power generation device that includes a light collecting member that collects and irradiates sunlight, a drive device that drives the light collecting member, and a control device that controls the drive device, and that has at least one solar c...