ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,578, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Power feed mat" was invented by Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan), Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Katsuya Kobayashi (Okazaki, Japan), Takahiro Hirano (Gotemba, Japan), Midori Sugiyama (Susono, Japan) and Ryunosuke Yamashita (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power feed mat includes a substrate including a power transmission coil capable of transmitting electric power to a power reception coil mounted on a vehicle and a cover sheet that covers the power transmission coil and at least one functional layer that can be provided at at least one ...