US Patent Issued to GE Intellectual Property Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Foreign object detection in a wireless power transfer system" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,402, issued on Oct. 7, 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), Jayanti Ganesh (Bangalore, India) and Subbarao Tatikonda (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. An FOD protocol can be coordinated with different operating phases of the WPT system, such as an idle phase, a configuration phase, a connected phase, and a power transfer phase. A...