US Patent Issued to NuCurrent on Jan. 27 for "Wireless power transfer with in-band virtualized wired communications" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,564, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NuCurrent Inc. (Chicago).

"Wireless power transfer with in-band virtualized wired communications" was invented by Mark Melone (Frankfort, Ill.) and Michael Katz (Glen Ellyn, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter-side host device comprises a transmitter-side antenna and a transmitter-side control system. The transmitter-side control system is configured to: (i) output an unmodulated AC signal for driving the transmitter-side antenna to emit an unmodulated alternating electromagnetic field that delivers wireless power to a receiver-side host device that includes a load and (ii) modula...