ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,805, issued on April 7, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Aichi, Japan).

"Wireless power transfer system" was invented by Hiromasa Saeki (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Masaya Tamura (Toyohashi, Japan), Yoshinobu Tamura (Toyohashi, Japan) and Suzuka Akai (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transfer system includes a cavity resonator entirely surrounded by an electromagnetic wave shielding member having appropriate conductivity and frequency selectivity; at least one power reception unit; at least one power transmissio...