ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,176, issued on May 12, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Dual-mode multi-coil wireless power transfer system" was invented by Seungyong Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), Semin Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Sungryul Huh (Daejeon, South Korea), Haerim Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seongho Woo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-mode multi-coil wireless power transfer system includes a control unit and a transmitter unit. The transmitter unit may wirelessly transmit electric power to an external receiver coil. The transmitter unit include a plurality of transmitt...