US Patent Issued to LG INNOTEK on July 29 for "Method for detecting foreign material, and device and system therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,933, issued on July 29, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for detecting foreign material, and device and system therefor" was invented by Jae Hee 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 transmitting power by a wireless power transmitter, the method including receiving a plurality of packets including a foreign object detection (FOD) status packet from a wireless power receiver; determining whether a foreign object is present in a charging area of the wireless power transmitter on the basis of the FOD status packet; and transmitting, to t...