US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on July 21 for "Wireless power receiving device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,235, issued on July 21, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Wireless power receiving device" was invented by Koyo Kaiwa (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Tatsuya Hosotani (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a power receiving resonant circuit, a rectifier circuit, a voltage conversion circuit, and a charge control circuit that charges an electric storage device. The charge control circuit starts charging the electric storage device when a received voltage is greater than or equal to a first received voltage value, decreases a set value of a charging current for the electric storage d...