ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,404, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Out-of-band communication in wireless power transmission system, and configuration method and device for out-of-band communication" was invented by Jinho Youn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for wireless power transmission by a wireless power transmitter in a wireless power transmission system, and a device using same, the method comprising: receiving a configuration packet from a wireless power receiver in a configuration phase, wherein the configuration packet related to the wireless power rec...