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. 12,444,993, 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 Il Kwon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power receiver that receives power from a wireless power transmitter, the wireless power receiver including a communication unit configured to communicate with the wireless power transmitter; and a main controller, wherein the main controller generates a plurality of packets including a foreign object detection (FOD) status packet, wherein the communicatio...