ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,806, issued on April 7, was assigned to GE Intellectual Property Licensing LLC (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

"Power source selection and control in an apparatus" was invented by Viswanathan Kanakasabai (Bangalore, India), Jayanti Ganesh (Bangalore, India), Subbarao Tatikonda (Bangalore, India) and Suma Memana Narayana Bhat (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for selectively utilizing wired power or wireless power in an apparatus. The apparatus may include a wired power circuit associated with the wired power and a wireless power circuit configured to receive wireless power f...