ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,397, issued on July 7, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Cooling system for a wireless power transmitter and receiver and method of using same" was invented by John Mecca (Oakland Township, Mich.), James R. Cook (Poland, Ohio) and Evan M. Wallace (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for wireless charging are described. A wireless transmitter includes a source coil and an array of alignment magnets around the source coil. The wireless transmitter further includes a heat sink that is arranged in thermal contact with the array of alignment magnets to create a the...