ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,253, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Coil unit for inductively charging a vehicle, and system" was invented by Josef Kellermeier (Geiselhoering, Germany), Josef Krammer (Holzkirchen, Germany), Hartmut Koenig (Hebertshausen, Germany), Stefan Opl (Bad Kohlgrub, Germany) and Martin Peteratzinger (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil unit inductively charges a vehicle. The coil unit has a housing and a coil. The coil is arranged at least partly in the housing. The coil has a plurality of windings of at least one electrical line, wherein the electrical line has two ends, and both ends of t...