ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,770, issued on July 28, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Wireless charging apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Byoung-kuk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangjoon Ann (Suwon-si, South Korea), Won Jin Son (Suwon-si, South Korea), Man Jae Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dong Hyeon Sim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ju A Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless charging apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a pad determinor configured to determine a receiving pad mounted on an electric vehicle entering a wirele...