US Patent Issued to Canon on March 17 for "Power transmission apparatus, power reception apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,427, issued on March 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Power transmission apparatus, power reception apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Hajime Iwase (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission apparatus that can wirelessly transmit power to a power reception apparatus via a power transmission coil and communicate with the power reception apparatus determines presence/absence of an object different from the power reception apparatus based on a Q factor of the power transmission coil measured in a phase for performing power transmission. The power transmissi...