Charging mobile phone wirelessly is something that all tech enthusiasts around globe have dreamt about for a long time. Although, tech developers have been working on this technology for a long time and have made some advancements including the Google Nexus 4 and Nokia Lumia 920 which both use inductive charging featuring Qi wireless charging, none have been able to develop a ground breaking solution to date. The aforementioned devices available in the market today which feature charging wirelessly require some sort of contact with the phone to recharge its battery. Although convenient, these devices are far from ideal.
To clarify, ideal wireless charging or charging without any contact has not been seen thus far, but according to the latest update it seems that some company called Apple is close to converting this dream into reality. The Cupertino company has recently filed a patent protecting their ideas and concepts surrounding wireless charging. The patent application was published a couple of days ago noting “Wireless Power Utilization in a Local Computing Environment,” which points out that Apple has filed for technology that could be a wireless charging nirvana.
The iPhone maker was looking to develop a wireless charging device that can charge any gadget like phones, keyboards, a mouse, remotes or any other device through NFMR resonator circuits within a distance of one yard, but this is not more than a theory and it has no solid backing thus far. Although one may somehow be able to charge gadgets completely wirelessly through NFMR, there is also a possibility that it could also cause or experience interference with other things in its range such as credit cards.
Some observers are also of the view that Apple might not have accomplished anything like true wireless charging and the company had filed the patent as a defensive move or “just in case”, particularly given how valuable patents are their protection have become for tech companies.
Since nothing is for sure yet therefore, only time will tell why Apple had filed this patent and when or if we will ever see the protected idea manifest itself.
Source: Gizmodo
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