ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,094, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method of harvesting wireless energy for climate control in a vehicle" was invented by Kamran Ali (Troy, Mich.), Jinzhu Chen (Troy, Mich.) and Pasit Asavisanu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of harvesting wireless energy for climate control in a cabin of a vehicle are provided. The method comprises receiving an electromagnetic (EM) signal of EM radiation having EM energy to define an EM current. The method further comprises filtering the EM energy to regulate the EM current converting the EM current to di...