ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,020, issued on May 13, was assigned to Energous Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of establishing in-band communications using a communication criterion" was invented by Wayne Eumchan Woo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment includes a method of communication between a wireless power receiver to a wireless power transmitter. The method includes receiving, by an antenna of the wireless power receiver, radio frequency (RF) signals from the wireless power transmitter, wherein the wireless power receiver substantially matches an impedance of the wireless power transmitter. The method furth...