ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,732, issued on June 16, was assigned to ENERGOUS Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Replacing traditional enclosure with encapsulated circuits for wireless power and data systems" was invented by Mallorie Burak (Eden, Utah) and Alister Hoss (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encapsulated radio frequency (RF) wireless power circuit and method to produce said encapsulated RF wireless power circuits, including transmitter and receiver circuits. In an example, the circuits are used in industrial sensor applications. The encapsulation discussed herein provides benefits including that in some embodiments, it is low cost, low pro...