ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,068, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Power transfer apparatus and method therefor" was invented by Aleksei Agafonov (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Wilhelmus Gerardus Maria Ettes (Leeuwarden, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transfer apparatus being a power transmitter (101) or power receiver (103) of a power transfer via a power transfer signal comprises a power coil (103, 107) for transferring power with a complementary power transfer coil (107, 103) being the other apparatus of the power transfer operation. A first communicator (205, 305) communicates data with ...