ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,057, issued on July 1, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Power transmitter, system and method therefor" was invented by Henricus Antonius Gerardus Van Vugt (Helmond, Netherlands) and Pascal Leonard Maria Theodoor Lebens (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmitter (101) provides wireless power transfer to a power receiver (105) via a wireless inductive power transfer signal. The power transmitter (101) comprises transmitter coil (203) for generating the power transfer signal and a driver (201) generating a drive signal for this. A communicator (207) communicates with the ...