US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 3 for "Object detection for wireless power transfer" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,456, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Object detection for wireless power transfer" was invented by Hanwei Wang (Urbana, Ill.), Giuseppe Pinto (San Francisco), Ruiyang Lin (Milpitas, Calif.), Tao Li (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivasa V Thirumalai Ananthan Pillai (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jukka-pekka J Sjoeroos (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transmitter (WPT) can include WPT circuitry having a wireless WPT coil that transmits wireless power signals; and control circuitry coupled to the WPT circuitry that: measures a present value of a first function of quality factor and ...