ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,384, issued on July 15, was assigned to MAGMENT GMBH (Oberhaching, Germany).

"Ferrite wings systems and methods for inductive wireless power transfer" was invented by Steven Niederhauser (San Diego), Mickel Budhia (Auckland, New Zealand), Dorde Lekic (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Mauricio Esguerra (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Rafael Acevedo (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and devices for wireless power transmission is provided. A system includes a ground assembly and a vehicle assembly. The ground assembly includes a primary coil and a magnetic permeable core. The vehicle assembly includes a secondary coil...