ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,585, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle and noncontact power supplying system with vehicle signal emission control" was invented by Ryosuke Ikemura (Susono, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan) and Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle for receiving power by noncontact from a power transmission apparatus of a ground power supplying apparatus, has: a power reception apparatus for receiving power from the power transmission apparatus; a vehicle side communication device for transmitting a signal including identification information of the vehicle to the groun...