US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 13 for "Coreless power transformer design" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,016, issued on May 13, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Coreless power transformer design" was invented by Chathan M. Cooke (Cambridge, Mass.) and Daniel Schemmel (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A primary resonant coil (22) and a secondary resonant coil (23) are different in the proposed improved coreless power transformer design, wherein the differences between the two resonant coils are achieved in two ways: (1) in the first difference, the two resonant coil windings are made to be different; for example, to have different number of turns, turn spacing and/or different wire...