ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,854, issued on April 29, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Wirelessly chargeable battery" was invented by Tatsuya Hosotani (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kiyokazu Yamada (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery, a wireless charging circuit connected to the secondary battery, an outer casing member that has an outer shape equivalent to an outer shape of a universal battery and accommodates the secondary battery and the wireless changing circuit, and a positive terminal and a negative terminal that are electrically connected to the secondary battery and are provided at positions corr...