Patents by Inventor Simone Agha

Simone Agha has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9780573
    Abstract: The disclosure features power transmitting apparatus for wireless power transfer to a receiver that includes a housing having a form factor that corresponds to a container featuring lateral surfaces, a bottom surface, and an opening opposite the bottom surface, a first coil formed by a continuous path of electrically conductive material and featuring a plurality of non-planar loops that conform to a first pair of opposite lateral surfaces and to the bottom surface, and a second coil formed by a continuous path of electrically conductive material and featuring a plurality of non-planar loops that conform to a second pair of opposite lateral surfaces and to the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: WiTricity Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander P. McCauley, Morris P. Kesler, Abdel Sam Rhoufiry, Simone Agha, Arunanshu M. Roy
  • Publication number: 20150222129
    Abstract: The disclosure features power transmitting apparatus for wireless power transfer to a receiver that includes a housing having a form factor that corresponds to a container featuring lateral surfaces, a bottom surface, and an opening opposite the bottom surface, a first coil formed by a continuous path of electrically conductive material and featuring a plurality of non-planar loops that conform to a first pair of opposite lateral surfaces and to the bottom surface, and a second coil formed by a continuous path of electrically conductive material and featuring a plurality of non-planar loops that conform to a second pair of opposite lateral surfaces and to the bottom surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Alexander P. McCauley, Morris P. Kesler, Abdel Sam Rhoufiry, Simone Agha, Arunanshu M. Roy
  • Publication number: 20140091756
    Abstract: Methods and systems for wireless transmission of power to a battery-operated device include a power receiving apparatus featuring at least one receiving resonator and a housing dimensioned to engage with a battery compartment of a battery-operated device, and a power transmitting apparatus including: a first pair of spaced source resonators, where each source resonator in the first pair features a loop of conducting material surrounding a common first axis; a second pair of spaced source resonators, where each source resonator in the second pair features a loop of conducting material surrounding a common second axis different from the first axis; and a controller coupled to the first and second pairs of source resonators and configured to provide non-radiative wireless power transfer from the power transmitting apparatus to the power receiving apparatus by alternately activating the first and second pairs of source resonators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Robert B. Ofstein, Volkan Efe, Andre B. Kurs, Alexander P. McCauley, Arunanshu M. Roy, Empar Rollano, Abdel Sam Rhoufiry, Benjamin K. Sampson, Morris P. Kesler, Matthew J. MacDonald, Eric R. Giler, Katherine L. Hall, Simone Agha
  • Publication number: 20140091636
    Abstract: Methods and systems for wireless transmission of power to a battery-operated device include a power receiving apparatus featuring at least one receiving resonator and a housing dimensioned to engage with a battery compartment of a battery-operated device, and a power transmitting apparatus including: a first pair of spaced source resonators, where each source resonator in the first pair features a loop of conducting material surrounding a common first axis; a second pair of spaced source resonators, where each source resonator in the second pair features a loop of conducting material surrounding a common second axis different from the first axis; and a controller coupled to the first and second pairs of source resonators and configured to provide non-radiative wireless power transfer from the power transmitting apparatus to the power receiving apparatus by alternately activating the first and second pairs of source resonators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Robert B. Ofstein, Volkan Efe, Andre B. Kurs, Alexander P. McCauley, Arunanshu M. Roy, Empar Rollano, Abdel Sam Rhoufiry, Benjamin K Sampson, Morris P. Kesler, Matthew J. MacDonald, Eric R. Giler, Katherine L. Hall, Simone Agha