ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,474, issued on June 23, was assigned to TAU MOTORS INC. (San Carlos, Calif.).
"Wirelessly transferring power within an electric machine with actively rectified rotor windings" was invented by Walter Wesley Pennington III (Portola Valley, Calif.), Ethan Bagget Swint (Redwood City, Calif.), Gregory Gordon Stevenson (San Carlos, Calif.), Michael Parker Owen (St. Augustine, Fla.), Anthony Da Costa (Los Altos, Calif.), Matthew J. Rubin (Indianapolis) and Matthias Preindl (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator defines multiple stator poles with associated stator windings. A rotor defines multiple rotor poles with associated roto...