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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2016
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mohammad Amin Arbabian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marcus J. Weber, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jayant Charthad, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A wireless powering and communication system is provided that includes a base unit, and an external unit that is separate from the base unit, where the base unit includes a single transducer circuit configured for uplink data communication to the external unit, where the transducer circuit is configured for power recovery from the external unit, a multiplexer circuit, a power recovery and conditioning circuit, a controller circuit, and a communication circuit, where the multiplexer circuit is configured to decouple power and data paths to enable operation with the single transducer circuit, the power recovery and conditioning circuit is configured to recover and optionally store power from power received by the single transducer circuit, the power recovery and conditioning circuit is configured to power the controller circuit and the communication circuit, the controller circuit is configured to control the multiplexer circuit, the communication circuit is configured to provide data to the multiplexer circuit.