US Patent Issued to THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH on May 26 for "Automatically-aligning magnetic field system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,599, issued on May 26, was assigned to THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (Valencia, Calif.).

"Automatically-aligning magnetic field system" was invented by Brian R. Dearden (Pasadena, Calif.) and Justin Cheng-Tsu Loo (San Marino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transfer device includes a first transmitting coil oriented along a first axis; a second transmitting coil on the first transmitting coil and oriented along a second axis different from the first axis; a nonmagnetic material magnetically decoupling the first transmitting coil from the second transmitting coil in an area of overlap betw...