US Patent Issued to LG INNOTEK on April 15 for "Method and apparatus for controlling wireless power transmission" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,502, issued on April 15, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for controlling wireless power transmission" was invented by Yu Ri Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Yong Il Kwon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of receiving power of a wireless power receiver, including a signal transmission phase of transmitting a signal including an FOD status packet to a wireless power transmitter; a power reception phase of receiving a first power from the wireless power transmitter when a NAK response indicating that a foreign object is present in the charging area of the wireless pow...