US Patent Issued to SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY (SDSU) FOUNDATION on Nov. 18 for "Low-power high-frequency directional tunable AC magnetic field" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,485, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY (SDSU) FOUNDATION (San Diego).

"Low-power high-frequency directional tunable AC magnetic field" was invented by George Youssef (Solana Beach, Calif.) and Scott Newacheck (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for near-field wireless energy transfer. A first layer provides or comprises a piezoelectric phase or a material with or adapted for electromechanical coupling; and a second layer provides or comprises a magnetostrictive phase or a material with or adapted for a magnetomechanical coupling. The second layer is mechanically and/or chemically cou...