ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,777, issued on July 28.
"Wireless charging photovoltaic surfaces" was invented by Cristian Sobota (Ilheus, Brazil), Adolfo Nemirovsky (San Jose, Calif.) and Stephen Melvin (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus able to acquire, accumulate and transmit energy. The apparatus comprises an active surface that collects solar energy from an array of photovoltaic cells and transmits that energy to a battery-operated device located near the surface by means of a matrix of wireless energy emitting circuits. The battery-operated device, which can be a robot, a vehicle or an appliance, has a wireless receiver surface tha...