Energous Seeks FCC Path for WPT Transmitter Cert

The U.S. wireless power transfer industry is “hampered in its ability to respond to customer demand” for WPT technologies by the current lack of a regulatory path at the FCC for the equipment certification of WPT transmitters that charge client devices under Part 18 at a distance over one meter, said a filing posted Monday in docket 19-226. Without FCC adoption of a regulatory path for WPT over one meter, company representatives told aides to FCC members, the U.S. could relinquish its “global leadership role with respect to WPT technologies.”