ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,526, issued on April 14, was assigned to Kitchenery Inc. (Tampa, Fla.).

"Hybrid wireless power device and method" was invented by Akshay Bhuva (Tampa, Fla.) and Antonio Agustin Mendez Delgado (Seville, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid wireless power device comprises a single coil operated at two or more resonance frequencies. For example, a control circuit controls the voltage applied across a power transmission coil of a hub, and a frequency control circuit comprises a switch, such as a solid state relay, for switching between a first capacitance and a second capacitance for shifting the resonance frequency from a firs...