ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,875, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Wireless power transmission system" was invented by Masato Maemura (Nisshin, Japan), Toshiya Hashimoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Shogo Tsuge (Fuji, Japan) and Ryosuke Ikemura (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wireless power transmission system according to the present disclosure includes: a supply device installed on the road side and transmitting electric power; a vehicle equipped with a power receiving device and traveling on the road; wherein in the wireless power transmission system, a power receiving device receives power from a supply device...