US Patent Issued to Canon on March 24 for "Power transmitting apparatus, power receiving apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,038, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Power transmitting apparatus, power receiving apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium" was invented by Takahiro Shichino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmitting apparatus sets, on the basis of transmission power set with the power receiving apparatus, a first threshold for determining whether or not a foreign object exist, and a second threshold lower than the first threshold. The first and second threshold are set so that the difference between the first and second threshold values becomes larger as the set transmission power becomes lar...