ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,263, issued on July 8, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Wireless power transfer" was invented by Johannes Wilhelmus Draak (Horst, Netherlands), Klaas Jacob Lulofs (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Pascal Leonard Maria Theodoor Lebens (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Andries van Wageningen (Wijlre, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transmitter (101) an output circuit (203, 103) comprises a transmitter coil (103) for which generates the power transfer signal a drive signal generated by a driver circuit (201) is applied. A power loop controller (209) implements a power control loop for con...