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This paper presents a new power transfer approach by aligning the phases of a collection of radio frequency (RF) energy chargers at the target receiver device. Our approach can ship energy over tens of meters and to mobile targets. More importantly, our approach leads to a highly asymmetric energy density distribution in the charging area: the energy density at the target receiver is much higher than the energy density at other locations. It is a departure from existing beamforming based WPT systems that have high energy along the energy beam path. Such a technology can enable a large array of batteryless Internet of Things applications and render them much more robust and long-running. Thanks to its asymmetric energy distribution, our approach potentially can be scaled up to ship higher level of energy over longer distances.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>In this paper, we design, prototype, and evaluate the proposed energy transfer approach, referred to as Energy-Ball. 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