ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,948, issued on April 1, was assigned to ElectDis AB (Malmo, Sweden).

"Testing device for testing a wireless power device, and an associated method" was invented by Laurens Swaans (Malmo, Sweden), Filip Dahlberg (Malmo, Sweden), Max Andersson (Malmo, Sweden) and Tony Tillerkvist (Kristianstad, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foreign object emulation device (60; 160; 260) for testing foreign object detection of a wireless power device (10; 20) is provided. The foreign object emulation device (60; 160; 260) is in operative communication with a processing means (61; 42; 52). The foreign object emulation device (60; 160; 260) comp...