US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 2 for "Vehicle and charging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,781, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle and charging system" was invented by Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Kazuhisa Matsuda (Sunto-gun, Japan), Fumihiko Nakamura (Susono, Japan), Manabu Handa (Susono, Japan) and Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a controller; a power receiving device that contactlessly receives power from a power transmitting facility; a battery chargeable using the power received by the power receiving device; and a power transmitting device that contactlessly outputs, to another vehicle, the power received by the power re...