US Patent Issued to Cornell University on May 6 for "Roadway embeddable capacitive wireless charging systems" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,225, issued on May 6, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Roadway embeddable capacitive wireless charging systems" was invented by Khurram Afridi (Ithaca, N.Y.), Sounak Maji (Ithaca, N.Y.), Sreyam Sinha (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Brandon Regensburger (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive wireless charging system for use with a vehicle includes a roadway-side capacitive charging pad configured to be embedded in a roadway and to form a capacitive electrical connection with a vehicle-side capacitive charging pad for wirelessly transferring power to charge a vehicle battery when the vehicle is on the roadway, ...