ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,720, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Flipping coil for wireless power transfer" was invented by Sheng Yuan (Shanghai), Shangfeng Jiang (Chengdu, China), Weiwei Zhou (Chengdu, China), Jiangjian Huang (Milpitas, Calif.), Bo Tang (Chengdu, China) and Hulong Zeng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structures, devices, and methods for wireless power transfer systems are described. A structure can include a plurality of strands a plurality arranged into a coil layer. For every fixed interval along a length of the structure, the plurality of strands can be folded at a la...