US Patent Issued to GE Intellectual Property Licensing on May 13 for "Foreign object detection in a wireless power transfer system" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,461, issued on May 13, was assigned to GE Intellectual Property Licensing LLC (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

"Foreign object detection in a wireless power transfer system" was invented by Viswanathan Kanakasabai (Bangalore, India), Subbarao Tatikonda (Bangalore, India), Jayanti Ganesh (Bangalore, India), Joginder Yadav (Bangalore, India) and Suma Memana Narayana Bhat (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for foreign object detection (FOD) in a wireless power transfer (WPT) system. Some implementations relate generally to the use of detection coils that are excited to measure an...