ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,489, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BRUSA ELEKTRONIK AG (Buchs, Switzerland).
"Object detection apparatus for an inductive charging system" was invented by Lukas Bohler (Sennwald, Switzerland) and Paolo Lombardo (Sennwald, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an inductive charging system energy is transferred via a magnetic field. An object detection apparatus for an inductive charging system comprises: a transmitter configured to transmit a signal; a receiver having a field of view including a substantial portion of the magnetic field, the receiver configured to receive within the field of view a reflected signal of the...