US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 28 for "Magnetics configurations for wireless power transfer and communications in electronic device" (New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,880, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Magnetics configurations for wireless power transfer and communications in electronic device" was invented by Ye Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Saining Ren (Auckland, New Zealand), Eric X Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Makiko K Brzezinski (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device can include a wireless power transfer coil configured to be magnetically coupled to a wireless power transfer coil of a complementary device, wireless power transfer circuitry, a processing and communications system, and a wireless communications coil coupled to the processing and...