ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,968, issued on April 8, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Near field communication and wireless power" was invented by Changjae Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Detelin Martchovsky (Fremont, Calif.), Amit Bavisi (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Sophia Yi (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power system is disclosed that allows data to be read and written into a wireless power transmission system of a wireless power transmitter through near-field communications (NFC). A method of exchanging data with a power transmission system in the wireless power transmitter and a graphical user interface c...