US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Inverter circuit and wireless power transfer circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,422, issued on March 17, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY (Chiba, Japan).

"Inverter circuit and wireless power transfer circuit" was invented by Hiroo Sekiya (Chiba, Japan) and Wenqi Zhu (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter circuit includes an input inductor connected in series between a direct-current power supply and a switching element partially constituting the inverter circuit, a high-frequency resonant circuit that includes a high-frequency resonant capacitor and a high-frequency resonant inductor and is connected in parallel to a switching element, and a switch having one en...