ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,201, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ELEAPPOWER LTD. (Toronto).
"System and method for wireless charging foreign object detection" was invented by Ali Ramezani (Toronto) and Si Tan Wang (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A misalignment tolerant foreign object detection approach is proposed for use with wireless charger systems where sensor coils or portions thereof are mirrored about one or more axes of radial symmetry. A first variant is proposed adapted for x-axis misalignment tolerance, and a second variant is proposed for simultaneous x and y axis misalignment tolerance. Further variants are proposed with additional rot...