US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 20 for "Power accounting for wireless power transfer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,182, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Power accounting for wireless power transfer" was invented by Antoin J Russell (Mountain View, Calif.), Guangqi Zhu (Cupertino, Calif.), Jukka-pekka J Sjoeroos (Cupertino, Calif.) and Stephen C Terry (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating a wireless power transfer system can include using wireless power transmitter control circuitry to: initiate a temporary pause of wireless power transfer; provide a stimulus signal to cause a resonant voltage in the wireless power transmitter coil during the temporary pause of wireless power transfer; use th...