ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,969, issued on April 8, was assigned to NuCurrent Inc. (Chicago).
"False notification suppression in wireless power transfer system" was invented by Andrew Kovacs (Lafayette, Ind.) and Jason Green (Evanston, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmitter for wireless power transfer includes a sensing system, a feedback mechanism and a control and communications unit includes a controller configured to receive object detection data from the sensing system, if a power receiver is detected, reset an alert timer, if the power receiver has been detected and a disconnect is detected, determine if an alert timer value is greater th...