ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,600, issued on Feb. 24.
"Foreign object detection testing for wireless chargers" was invented by Petru Emanuel Stingu (Dallas), Arun Raghu (Dallas), Malek Ramezani (Lynnwood, Wash.), Kenneth Moore (Dallas) and Ruwanga Dassanayake (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method for performing foreign object detection (FOD) testing of a wireless power transmitter includes: placing a foreign object (FO) between the wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver; beginning to wirelessly transmitting power from the wireless power transmitter towards the wireless power receiver; a predetermined amount of time af...