US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on Nov. 18 for "Device sensing and charging using networked coils" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,490, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Device sensing and charging using networked coils" was invented by Kaushik Chowdhury (Needham, Mass.) and Yousof Naderi (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensing and charging of electronic devices using coils. A software-defined collaborative sensing approach can allow detection and location of multiple electronic devices with respect to a charging surface to allow for wireless charging thereof. Systems and methods can measure the interaction of devices with a generated magnetic field through a network of nested sensing coils that can sense the ...