ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,847, issued on June 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Wireless charging through a display" was invented by Michael J. Lombardi (South Barrington, Ill.), Joe Allore (Mundelein, Ill.), Jae-Won Hwang (Menlo Park, Calif.), Mark Mienko (San Jose, Calif.) and Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example mobile computing device includes a display; a battery; a wireless charging coil positioned to wirelessly transmit or receive electrical energy through the display; and circuitry configured to charge the battery using electrical energy received via the wireless chargin...