ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,565, issued on March 25, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image processing-based foreign substance detection method in wireless charging system and device performing method" was invented by Gwangzeen Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Ick Moon (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang-Won Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Seong-Min Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), In Kui Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Woo Jin Byun (Daejeon, South Korea) and Je Hoon Yun (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing-based foreign substance detection method in a wireless charging system and a d...