ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,401, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Quantized waveform power transmission" was invented by Werner Meskens (Opwijk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for wirelessly transferring power signals (power) through the use of a quantized wave-shaped signal, referred to herein as "quantized waveform." In particular, a quantized waveform generator comprises a pulse generator and a set of amplifiers that are grouped over a distributed resonance capacitor part of a series resonant tank circuit. These amplifiers are driven in a predefined sequence of puls...