ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,661, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to PULS GmbH (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany).
"Omnidirectional access" was invented by Johannes Tritschler (Hartheim, Germany) and Carina Kreutner (Freiburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coil pad for wireless power transfer having a front plane radiating an electromagnetic field during wireless power transfer, the coil pad having a circumference encompassing a positioning contour reflecting positioning options for at least one point-to-point communication element to be embedded into the front plane, the positioning contour having rotational symmetry with respect to a first axis of symmet...