ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,998, issued on Oct. 14, 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 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 receiver (105) comprises a transmitter (509) arranged to transmit symbols in accordance with a first or second communication mode where the first mode modulates data symbols b...