ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,040, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Power receiving apparatus, method for power receiving apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Ichiro Tamura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power receiving apparatus (401) includes a coil (205) that wirelessly receives electric power from a power transmission apparatus, communication means (204) for transmitting at a predetermined interval a signal for executing a detection process to detect an object, different from the power transmission apparatus or the power receiving apparatus, in accordance with a value of voltage or current at least at two ti...