ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,301, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).
"Wireless transmitter location determination using controllably varied load" was invented by John Kenneth Hooker (Louisville, Ky.), Craig Benjamin Williams (Louisville, Ky.) and Hieu Manh Vu (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method of locating a wireless power transmitter in which a variable load coupled to a wireless power receiver configured to receive a wireless power signal from the wireless power transmitter is controllably varied to maintain a harvested voltage of the wireless power signal within a predetermined range...