ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,020, issued on March 4, was assigned to Laser Motive Inc. (Kent, Wash.).
"Multi-layered safety system" was invented by Jordin T. Kare (San Jose, Calif.), Thomas J. Nugent Jr. (Bellevue, Wash.), David Bashford (Kent, Wash.), Carsten Erickson (Kent, Wash.) and Thomas W. Bashford (Renton, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed towards a safety system that can be used with a high-flux power beam, such as in wireless power transmission. The system includes a transmitter that generates and transmits a power beam and a receiver that receives the power beam. A plurality of sensors is configured to independently detect ...