US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on March 3 for "Wireless power transfer system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,764, issued on March 3, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Wireless power transfer system" was invented by Norikazu Sakamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Tatsuya Hosotani (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transfer system comprises a power transmission device and a power reception device. The power reception device includes a power reception coil that wirelessly magnetically couples with a power transmission coil included in the power transmission device. The power transmission device includes a switching circuit in which switch elements perform switching operations, an input ...