US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 23 for "Timing recovery for in-band communication in inductive power transfer systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,179, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Timing recovery for in-band communication in inductive power transfer systems" was invented by Sriram Narayanan (Los Gatos, Calif.), Xing Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Srinath Hosur (Fremont, Calif.) and Alireza Safaee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock recovery system for recovering an in-band communication clock in a wireless power transfer system can in include: a phase locked loop; and a bit decision block and a multiplexer that cooperate to selectively provide the error signal to the loop filter responsive to detected bits in the in-band ...