ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,883, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"System and method for improved amplitude shift keying (ASK) communication in wireless power transfer applications" was invented by Bin Huang (Beijing) and Xun Gong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A comparator has a hysteresis value which is adjustable in response to a hysteresis setting control signal. An input of the comparator receives a modulated signal contaminated by in-band noise. A pulsed signal output from the comparator is converted by a digital to analog converter circuit an analog signal. That analog signal is converted b...