ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,394, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Wireless power transfer" was invented by Aleksei Agafonov (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Antonius Adriaan Maria Staring (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmitter (101) provides power to a power receiver (105) via an inductive power transfer signal which is also used by the power receiver (105) for communication by load modulation. The power transmitter (101) comprises a load detector (209) detecting load variations for the power transfer signal and a preamble presence detector (213) correlates a second chip seque...