US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Feb. 24 for "Devices, systems, and methods for capacitance in wireless power transfer" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,978, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany) and UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for capacitance in wireless power transfer" was invented by Andrew P. Foote (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Daniel Costinett (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods related to wireless power transfer for vehicles can include a wireless power transfer assembly which may be coupled with the vehicle chassis. The assembly can include a shielding body, and a power coil assembly arranged on one side of the shielding body for wireless power transfer. ...