ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,492, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NuCurrent Inc. (Chicago).

"Bit stuffing for thermal mitigation in wireless power and data transfer system" was invented by Jason Green (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a wireless power transfer system is configured for utilizing software for the purposes of thermal mitigation, via re-encoding data in a bitstream for data communicated in-band of wireless power transfer. The data is encoded as binary messages. The method includes inserting one or more sets of non-data low pulses into the binary bit stream to generate a stuffed binary bit stream, each of the on...