ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,926, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ossia Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Transmission path identification based on propagation channel diversity" was invented by Hatem Ibrahim Zeine (Woodinville, Wash.) and Ahmad Moghaddam (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology relate generally to wireless power systems. More specifically, some embodiments relate to the use of time reversal techniques utilizing time diversity (e.g., different multipath arrivals at the same antenna) to achieve coherency from the same transmission node. For example, instead of initiating outgoing transmissions (e.g., ...