ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,931, issued on June 9, was assigned to TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Cookeville, Tenn.).

"Layered double-D coil for wireless power transfer systems" was invented by Muhammad E Bima (Atlanta) and Indranil Bhattacharya (Cookeville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transfer device is disclosed that includes at least a first coil layer and a second coil layer, each coil layer including two coil windings positioned adjacent to one another in a lateral direction; wherein the two coil windings in each corresponding coil layer are connected in series and are wound in the same rotational direction, and the first and ...