ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,317, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Wireless power transfer" was invented by Aleksei Agafonov (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmitter (101) transfers power to a power receiver (105) and comprises a power input (209) receiving supply power. A power detector (211) detects a restoring of the supply power following an outage, and a presence detector (213) detects the presence of the power receiver when supply power is being restored. A first communicator (207) can communicate with a second communicator (509) of the power receiver (105) using a short ...