US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 23 for "Augmented reality wireless charging layout" (American, Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,446, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Augmented reality wireless charging layout" was invented by Nadiya Kochura (Bolton, Mass.), Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Hamid Majdabadi (Ottawa) and Yang Liang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for creating a wireless charging layout. The embodiment may include receiving one or more signals from one or more wireless charger devices within a given space. The embodiment may include identifying a location of a power-consuming electric device within the given...