ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,282, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BRUSA ELEKTRONIK AG (Sennwald, Switzerland).

"Primary circuit device, secondary circuit device, and system for inductive charging" was invented by Martin Erler (Dornbirn, Austria) and Marc Hanselmann (Frumsen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary circuit device including a secondary coil for transmitting and/or receiving magnetic energy of a magnetic field and converting the magnetic energy into electrical energy; a rectifier for rectifying the electrical energy; and a detection unit; wherein the secondary coil is connected to the rectifier via a conducting unit, the conductin...