US Patent Issued to Aira on May 12 for "Transmitter coil power foreign object detection" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,177, issued on May 12, was assigned to Aira Inc. (Phoenix).

"Transmitter coil power foreign object detection" was invented by Mohammad Ali Saket Tokaldani (Vancouver, Canada) and Eric Heindel Goodchild (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A wireless charging device has a resonant circuit including one or more power transmitting coils in a charging surface of the charging device, a driver circuit configured to provide a charging current to the resonant circuit, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine an average transmitted power using samples of ...