US Patent Issued to Auckland UniServices on July 8 for "Inductive power transfer system control" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,272, issued on July 8, was assigned to Auckland UniServices Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Inductive power transfer system control" was invented by Udaya Kumara Madawala (Auckland, New Zealand) and Yeran Liu (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling the primary or secondary side converter of a wireless power transfer (WPT) or an inductive power transfer (IPT) system includes optimising a load impedance, and controlling one or more of a duty cycle or relative phase angle to reduce or minimize the converter losses at the optimal load impedance"

The patent was filed on Sept. 3, 2020, under Application...