ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,735, issued on June 16, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Wireless charging for wearable devices with magnetic alignment features" was invented by Baifeng Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Yewching Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Zhongming Chen (San Carlos, Calif.), David Tao (Atherton, Calif.) and Tony David (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, a charging interface for a wearable device may include a receiver coil arranged inside the wearable device; a transmitter coil arranged outside the wearable device, where the transmitter coil is to generate a charging voltage for the we...