ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,193, issued on April 29, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Quadrature communication for wireless power transfer" was invented by Damla Solmaz Acar (La Mesa, Calif.), Mihail Jefremow (Dusseldorf, Germany), Jure Menart (Zurich), Pooja Agrawal (Milpitas, Calif.), Amit Bavisi (Saratoga, Calif.) and Gustavo James Mehas (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for demodulating a signal is described. A device can receive a modulated signal that encodes data. The device can sample a voltage of the modulated signal to generate a plurality of samples in digital domain. The devi...