US Patent Issued to Bitstrata Systems on March 3 for "Inductive power and communications bus" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,537, issued on March 3, was assigned to Bitstrata Systems Inc. (Saskatoon, Canada).

"Inductive power and communications bus" was invented by Ian Robert Meier (Saskatoon, Canada) and Michael David Lockerbie (Saskatoon, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing power to and support bidirectional communications between one or more devices by injecting an alternating current into a primary conductive loop. The devices inductively couple to the loop to receive power, receive data, and transmit data. The coupling may occur at any position along the loop by passing one wire of the primary loop through the physi...