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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 05, 2019
Applicant:

The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Inventors:

Al-Thaddeus Avestruz, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Akshay Sarin, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 50/12 (2016.01); H02J 50/40 (2016.01); H02J 7/02 (2016.01); H02J 50/80 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 50/12 (2016.02); H02J 7/025 (2013.01); H02J 50/40 (2016.02); H02J 50/80 (2016.02);
Abstract

A device configured for wireless power transfer includes a digital controller configured to generate a plurality of switch control signals, and a transceiver configured to generate a wireless signal for the wireless power transfer. The transceiver includes a plurality of switches, each switch of the plurality of switches being responsive to a respective switch control signal of the plurality of switch control signals such that the wireless signal has a waveform shaped in accordance with a code sequence for the wireless power transfer. The code sequence is one of a set of predetermined code sequences, each predetermined code sequence being orthogonal to each other predetermined code sequence of the set of predetermined code sequences.


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