US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on March 25 for "Method for controlling power transmitting device, method for detecting foreign object, and power transmitting device in wireless power transmission system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,913, issued on March 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for controlling power transmitting device, method for detecting foreign object, and power transmitting device in wireless power transmission system" was invented by Hiroyuki Matsuo (Osaka, Japan) and Tetsuro Sawai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmitting device includes a power transmitting coil for providing output power to a power receiving coil, a thermal sensor that detects a temperature around the power transmitting coil, and a power transmission control circuit that controls the power tr...