ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,369, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AUCKLAND UNISERVICES Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).
"Inductive power and data transfer using energy injection" was invented by David Mortimer Budgett (Auckland, New Zealand), Simon Charles Malpas (Auckland, New Zealand), Dixon Pok Chung Leung (Auckland, New Zealand), Robert John Gallichan (Auckland, New Zealand), Bryon Elmer Wright (Auckland, New Zealand) and John Daniel McCormick (Auckland, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transfer secondary or pick-up has a resonant circuit and a switch connected to the resonant circuit operable to produce a phase shift in an oscilla...