ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,390, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Wireless charging device capable of supporting user terminal in various directions and at various angles" was invented by Kyunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seong Hun Lee (Ulju-gun, South Korea), Gyunghwan Yook (Seoul, South Korea), Hyoung Seok Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hwanyong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discussed is a wireless charging device which can change the direction of a magnetic field, generated in a transmission coil, through a vertically and horizontally rotatable repeater, and can hold a user terminal in par...