US Patent Issued to Hubbell on March 18 for "Inductive power transfer" (Connecticut, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,466, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).

"Inductive power transfer" was invented by John Brower (Fairfield, Conn.), Matthew Samojeden (Rye, N.Y.), Shadi AbuGhazaleh (Guilford, Conn.) and Robert Simon (Shelton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a non-contact power transmitter device including a sealed housing provided at least partially within a surface, and a transmitter coil within the sealed housing configured to inductively transfer power to a power receiver device. The power transmitter device also includes a transmitter control unit coupled to the transmitter coil, a tra...