ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,449, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Wireless charging apparatus and terminal using same" was invented by Qitang Liu (Shenzhen, China), Ce Liu (Dongguan, China), Weiliang Shu (Dongguan, China), Yanding Liu (Dongguan, China), Pinghua Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Yong Cao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless charging apparatus includes a receive end coil, a switch selection circuit, a plurality of charging circuits, and a receive end controller. An input end of the switch selection circuit is connected to an output end of the receive end coil, and an output end of...