ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,397, issued on Jan. 27, 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) comprises an input circuit (107, 503) with a receiver coil (107) extracting power from a power transfer signal generated by a power transmitter (101). A variable load (511) applies a modulation loading to the input circuit (107, 503) and a data transmitter (509) transmit data symbols to the power transmitter (101) by load modulating the power transfer...