ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,265, issued on July 8, was assigned to LaserMotive Inc. (Kent, Wash.).
"Remote power beam-splitting" was invented by Thomas J. Nugent Jr. (Bellevue, Wash.), Thomas W. Bashford (Renton, Wash.), Alexander Hay (Bellevue, Wash.) and David Bashford (Kent, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote power system includes a remote power transmitter arranged to output a high-flux power beam and a remote power receiver arranged to receive the high-flux power beam. The receiver has a plurality of photo-voltaic (PV) cells mounted to generate electrical power from energy in the high-flux power beam, at least one non-PV structure adjacent to eac...