ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,364, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Wireless power transfer" was invented by Antonius Adriaan Maria Staring (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Aleksei Agafonov (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power receiver (105) communicates to a power transmitter (101) using load modulation data symbols modulated by a chip sequence with a chip sequence being divided into load time intervals with different modulation loads. The power transmitter (101) comprises a receiver (207) which includes a load measurer (209) determining measured load values of the power transfer signal ...