ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,659, issued on May 20, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Power transmission device" was invented by Takashi Ohta (Kyoto, Japan), Yusuke Kawai (Kyoto, Japan) and Goro Nakao (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission device includes power transmission coils, at least one power supply circuit, a communicator, and a control circuit. The power transmission coils transmit power to a power reception device via a power reception coil. The at least one power supply circuit supplies AC power to the power transmission coils, respectively. The communicator receives a signal indicating a power reception status of...