ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,403, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for NFC communication and detection during charging in wireless power transmission system" was invented by Jinho Youn (Seoul, South Korea) and Jonggu Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for transferring wireless power, performed by a wireless power transmitter in a wireless power transmission system, and an apparatus using same, the method being characterized by: entering a power transfer phase related to transferring the wireless power; and receiving a first near field comm...