US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Wireless charging at substantially uniform charge rate for different physical charge configurations" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,980, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Wireless charging at substantially uniform charge rate for different physical charge configurations" was invented by Hanming Zu (Redmond, Wash.), Daniel Dhondt (Sammamish, Wash.), Casey Callan (Seattle) and Xin Huang (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless charging system for a planar wireless accessory includes a receiving coil positioned within the planar wireless accessory and a transmitting coil positioned within a planar electronic device. The transmitting coil generates a magnetic flux that is received by the receiv...