US Patent Issued to Raymond Hoheisel on March 24 for "Receiver for free-space optical power beaming" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,134, issued on March 24, was assigned to Raymond Hoheisel (Silver Spring, Md.).

"Receiver for free-space optical power beaming" was invented by Raymond Hoheisel (Arlington, Va.) and Andreas Heller (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A free-space optical power beaming device may be configured to receive a light beam from an external source. The device may include a plurality of photovoltaic elements configured to convert light to electrical energy; a plurality of electrical charge storage elements, and a light reflector element configured to reflect a light beam toward one or more of the plurality of photovoltaic eleme...