ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,151, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Inc. (San Francisco).

"Contactless power transfer system and method for controlling the same" was invented by Pradeep Vijayan (Bangalore, India), Rajendra Naik (Bangalore, India), Arun Kumar Raghunathan (Bangalore, India) and Vishnu Mahadeva Iyer (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless power transfer system is provided. The contactless power transfer system includes a first power exchanger coil configured to exchange power. The contactless power transfer system also includes a first power converter operatively coupled to the first power exchanger coil and ...