US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 14 for "Apparatus and method for performing wireless power transmission on basis of foreign material detection" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,529, issued on April 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for performing wireless power transmission on basis of foreign material detection" was invented by Yongcheol Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification provides a wireless power reception apparatus comprising: a power pick-up unit configured to receive wireless power from a wireless power transmission apparatus by magnetic coupling with the wireless power transmission apparatus and convert an AC signal generated by the wireless power into a DC signal; a...