US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 26 for "Inductive power transfer system with common mode channel communication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,227, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Inductive power transfer system with common mode channel communication" was invented by Adam L. Schwartz (Redwood City, Calif.), Ye Li (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rohan Dayal (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transfer transmitter can include a transmitter coil configured to deliver power to an inductively coupled receiver coil in a wireless power transfer receiver, a power converter configured to drive the transmitter coil, and means for driving the transmitter coil with a common-mode coupled communication signal to the wireless po...