US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on May 12 for "Method for detecting an object to be charged and associated charging device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,180, issued on May 12, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for detecting an object to be charged and associated charging device" was invented by Brahim Aloui (Toulouse, France), Jean-Philippe Sanchis (Toulouse, France) and Isabelle Bacaer (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an object to be charged by an induction-charging device including at least one transmitting coil. The method includes transmission, by the at least one coil, of an electrical pulse the value of which is within a window of values predetermined using test receivers, and the object t...