US Patent Issued to CANON on July 21 for "Power transmission apparatus, power reception apparatus, method for controlling wireless power transmission system, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,240, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Power transmission apparatus, power reception apparatus, method for controlling wireless power transmission system, and storage medium" was invented by Hajime Shimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transmission system wirelessly transmits power from a power transmission apparatus to a power reception apparatus. The system performs detection processing using a first detection method for detecting an object different from the power reception apparatus. The system determines whether a predetermined condition related to a state of at least eith...