ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,983, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Power transmission apparatus, control method of power transmission apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Takahiro Shichino (Tokyo), Kazuo Moritomo (Kanagawa, Japan), Hajime Iwase (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoki Hiramatsu (Tokyo) and Hajime Shimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission apparatus includes a first power transmission unit configured to perform wireless power transmission to a power receiving apparatus in a first region by using at least one of a plurality of coils, a second power transmission unit configured to perform wireless p...