US Patent Issued to LG INNOTEK on Oct. 14 for "Method for detecting foreign material, and device and system therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,990, issued on Oct. 14, 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 II Kwon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of receiving power by a wireless power receiver, the method including transmitting, to a wireless power transmitter, a plurality of packets including a foreign object detection (FOD) status packet; and receiving, from the wireless power transmitter, a response signal indicating whether a foreign object is present in a charging area of the wireless power tran...