US Patent Issued to Energous on July 1 for "Wireless-power transmitting device for creating a uniform near-field charging area" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,055, issued on July 1, was assigned to Energous Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wireless-power transmitting device for creating a uniform near-field charging area" was invented by Sohini Sengupta (Milpitas, Calif.), Yunhong Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Tuomo Katajamaki (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example near-field charging system includes a housing that includes a charging surface and at least one other surface, a radiating antenna, and a non-radiating element positioned above the radiating antenna within the housing such that the non-radiating element is closer to the charging surface than the radiating antenna. The...