ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,461, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Power transmission apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Tomoki Hiramatsu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission apparatus configured to wirelessly transmit power to a power reception apparatus executes, when wirelessly transmitting power, detection processing for detecting an object different from the power reception apparatus, using a power loss, obtains, from the power reception apparatus, reference value information regarding a reference value of received power used to obtain the power loss, and performs a...