US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama on Sept. 23 for "Infinite wireless charging of a UAS (unmanned aerial system) with power infrastructure" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,876, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.).

"Infinite wireless charging of a UAS (unmanned aerial system) with power infrastructure" was invented by Nathan Seongheon Jeong (Tuscaloosa, Ala.), Edward Hackett Jr. (Tuscaloosa, Ala.), Edward Hackett (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and Bobby C. Johnson II (Tuscaloosa, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enabling infinite wireless charging of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) are provided. A UAS detects sources of power and wirelessly charges itself by collecting ambient electromagnetic energy from a power infrast...