US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Jan. 13 for "Transmitting device and energy transfer system for contactless transfer of electric energy by means of inductive coupling or by means of capacitive coupling" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,822, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Transmitting device and energy transfer system for contactless transfer of electric energy by means of inductive coupling or by means of capacitive coupling" was invented by Maik-Julian Bueker (Chemnitz, Germany) and Steffen Wittemeier (Bielefeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a transmitting device for contactless transfer of electric energy by means of inductive coupling or by means of capacitive coupling to one or several receiving modules, each comprising a field receiving element for recei...