US Patent Issued to Airbus on Aug. 18 for "Contactless electrical energy transfer device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,170, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France).

"Contactless electrical energy transfer device" was invented by Didier Chassaigne (Blagnac, France), Richard Perraud (Blagnac, France) and Ivan Revel (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless electrical energy transfer device including a first system which includes at least one first coil including at least one first winding around at least one first zone without wire, a layer of ferromagnetic elements, at least one small column passing through the first coil by passing through a first zone without wire, and a second system which includes at lea...