US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 2 for "Wireless charging coil in wearable devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,323, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Wireless charging coil in wearable devices" was invented by Qi Tian (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Jia (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tressa Christie Scott (San Francisco) and Srikanth Lakshmikanthan (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for a wearable device having a wireless power receiving system that may inductively receive or transmit power. The wireless power receiving system includes a receiver coil having a profile that follows a contour of a bottom cover of the wearable device. A transmitter coil from a wireless charging de...