US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Sept. 9 for "Power loss accounting method for in-power foreign object detection" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,104, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Power loss accounting method for in-power foreign object detection" was invented by Santosh Bhandarkar (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foreign object may be detected by measuring inductance and resistance of a transmitter coil using a meter circuit when a plurality of currents are applied to the transmitter coil when the transmitter coil is in standalone conditions and when a receiver coil is mated to the transmitter coil without a foreign object present. A simulation model is generated based on the measured inductance and resista...