US Patent Issued on Aug. 11 for "Power receivers and high power over fiber" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,488, issued on Aug. 11.

"Power receivers and high power over fiber" was invented by Thomas J. Nugent Jr. (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power beaming system operates at high power to deliver power from a transmitter to a receiver over a fiber connection (PoF) or through free space (FSP). The receiver may have a gross design efficiency ratio of at least 70%, and the system may have a system design efficiency ratio of 40% or more. For PoF systems, the fiber length may range from 5 m or less to 1 km or more."

The patent was filed on April 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/858,275.

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