ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,732, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GE Intellectual Property Licensing LLC (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

"Wireless charging device, a receiver device, and a method of operating the same" was invented by Viswanathan Kanakasabai (Bangalore, India), Suma Memana Narayana Bhat (Bangalore, India), Arun Kumar Raghunathan (Bangalore, India), Rahul Bhujade (Bangalore, India), Satishbabu Bhogineni (Chennai, India) and Somakumar Ramachandrapanicker (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless charging device includes a driver unit configured to generate one of a first AC voltage signal having a first frequency and a second AC voltage si...