ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,173, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Method and system for non-contact charging using phased array" was invented by Franklin Bien (Ulsan, South Korea), Jungho Kim (Ulsan, South Korea), Hyunkyeong Jo (Ulsan, South Korea) and Seoktae Seo (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless charging method and system using a phase array method are presented. The contactless charging system using a phase array method, which is proposed in the present disclosure, includes a transmission part having at least one horizontal wire and at least one...