Patent ID: 11955808
Assignee: NUCURRENT, INC.
Field: nan (nan)
Classification: CPC nan | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A wireless power and data transfer system comprising:
a wireless power transmission system including
a transmitter antenna configured to couple with at least one receiver antenna of a wireless power receiver system and transmit alternating current (AC) wireless signals to the at least one receiver antenna; and
a transmission controller configured to
provide a driving signal for driving the transmitter antenna based on an operating frequency for the wireless power transmission system such that the transmitter antenna emits a transmission in accordance with the driving signal, wherein the driving signal is configured to generate a power signal and a first asynchronous serial data signal in accordance with a wireless power and data transfer protocol,
decode the power signal to extract a second data signal compliant with the wireless power and data transfer protocol, and
decode the second data signal compliant with the wireless power and data transfer protocol to extract a second asynchronous serial data signal; and

a transmission out of band communications system configured to take over data communications from the wireless power transmission system when a load associated with the wireless receiver system has a power level to perform out of band communications, wherein the transmission out of band communications system transmits data in accordance with an out of band communications protocol; and

a wearable electronic device comprising the wireless power receiver system and the load, the wireless power receiver system comprising:
at least one receiver antenna configured for inductive coupling with the transmitter antenna and receiving the transmission in accordance with the wireless power and data transfer protocol from the transmitter antenna, the at least one receiver antenna operating at the operating frequency;
a power conditioning system configured to (i) receive the transmission from the at least one receiver antenna, (ii) convert the received transmission to a DC power signal, and (iii) provide the DC power signal at least to the load; and
a receiver controller configured to
decode the transmission to extract a first data signal compliant with the wireless power and data transfer protocol and decode the first data signal compliant with the wireless power and data transfer protocol to extract the first asynchronous serial data signal,
encode a second asynchronous serial data signal as a second data signal compliant with the wireless power and data transfer protocol, and
selectively alter the DC power signal to encode the second data signal compliant with the wireless power and data transfer protocol into the DC power signal; and

a receiver out of band communications system configured to take over data communications from the wireless power receiver system when the load has the power level to perform out of band communications, wherein the receiver out of band communications system receives data in accordance with the out of band communications protocol.