US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Power transmission apparatus for wirelessly transmitting AC power switched at a timing based on a corrected clock signal, and method of controlling same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,231, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Power transmission apparatus for wirelessly transmitting AC power switched at a timing based on a corrected clock signal, and method of controlling same" was invented by Takeshi Ide (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission unit 100 includes a clock generation circuit 105 that generates a clock signal, a switch circuit 102 that switches alternating-current power at a timing based on the clock signal, a power transmission antenna 101 that wirelessly transmits the switched alternating-current power, and a transmission antenna 103 that wirelessly tra...