US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on July 7 for "Partially magnetized pavement for wireless power transfer to electric vehicles" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,574, issued on July 7, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Partially magnetized pavement for wireless power transfer to electric vehicles" was invented by Hao Wang (Piscataway, N.J.) and Lukai Guo (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partially magnetized pavement is placed above a transmitter coil for improved efficiency of electric vehicles charging through wireless power transfer. The partially magnetized pavement includes a non-magnetized pavement portion positioned vertically above the transmitter coil and a magnetized pavement portion positioned vertically above a firs...