ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,408, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for combining magnetic and non-magnetic multi-coil wireless charging" was invented by Ivan Sieklik (Martin, Slovak Republic), Radek Holis (Karolinka, Czech Republic) and Michal Smola (Zlin, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting placement of a receiver coil of a device upon a transmitter coil of a wireless charger, identifying a transmitter coil type of the transmitter coil, identifying a receiving coil type associated with the receiver coil of the device, comparing...