ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,320, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Wi-Charge Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"System for location and charging of wireless power receivers" was invented by Hen Markovitch (Modiin, Israel), Ilanit Shapir (Rehovot, Israel), Lior Golan (Ramat Gan, Israel), Zohar Levin (Rehovot, Israel), Omer Nahmias (Aminadav, Israel), Yan Rosh (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alexander Slepoy (Chandler, Ariz.) and Ortal Alpert (Ness Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transmitter for powering a remote receiver using a laser beam, the laser beam generator having current inputs and outputs electrically insulated from their surroundings, and each ...