ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,753, issued on June 17, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method of detecting foreign object and electronic device" was invented by Mingi Song (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kyungmin Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Changhak O (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes: a battery, a wireless power transfer (WPT) coil, wireless power transceiver circuitry, a charging circuit, and a processor electrically connected to the wireless power transceiver circuitry and the charging circuit. The processor implements t...