ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,286, issued on May 5, was assigned to Endura Products LLC (Colfax, N.C.).

"Induction coil embedded in laminate layer" was invented by Adam Kendall (Burlington, N.C.) and Bruce Procton (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door including a laminated member, an energy receiver, and an electrical device. The laminated member has a plurality of layers are bonded to one another. The energy receiver is configured to inductively receive electrical energy from an energy transmitter. The energy receiver includes a receiver coil forming a portion of at least one layer of the plurality of layers of the laminated member. The electrica...