ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,329, issued on July 22, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for detecting foreign material, and apparatus and system therefor" was invented by Jae Hee Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission method for a wireless power transmitter, the power transmission method including transmitting sequentially a plurality of sensing signals to a wireless power receiver through transmission coils to sense a presence of the wireless power receiver; identifying transmission coils that receives a signal strength indictor transmitted from the wireless power receiver in response to the p...