US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on July 15 for "Charging a battery of an electric vehicle hovering in the air" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,153, issued on July 15, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Charging a battery of an electric vehicle hovering in the air" was invented by Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yanghe Liu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to charging a battery of an electric vehicle while the electric vehicle is hovering. In one embodiment, a method includes, responsive to determining that an electric vehicle does not include a receiver pad, inserting the receiver pad into the electric vehicle that is hovering in ...