ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,554, issued on April 21, was assigned to GE Intellectual Property Licensing LLC (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

"Method and system for protecting a wireless power transfer system" was invented by Kapil Jha (Bangalore, India), Pradeep Vijayan (Bangalore, India) and Yash Veer Singh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transfer system is disclosed. The wireless power transfer system includes a first converting unit configured to convert a first DC voltage of an input power to a first AC voltage. Further, the wireless power transfer system includes a contactless power transfer unit configured to receive the input power h...