ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,589, issued on March 31, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Wireless power reception device and wireless power transmission device" was invented by Jaehyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Minsoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jinkwon Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jingu Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of the present invention, a wireless power reception device includes: a power pickup circuit configured to form a magnetic coupling with a wireless power transmission device to receive wireless power from the wireless power transmission device; and a communication/control circui...