ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,604, issued on July 15, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Wireless power transmitter circuit having low power pinging and control circuit and method thereof" was invented by Fu-Chi Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transmitter circuit generates a wireless transmitting power during a power supply procedure, and determines whether there is a corresponding wireless power receiver circuit near by the wireless power transmitter circuit during a groping procedure. The groping procedure includes: step S10, generating a first analog groping transmitting signal; step S20, determini...