ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,678, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for illegal packet processing and validity verification in wireless power transmission system" was invented by Jinho Youn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification (present disclosure) provides a method for transferring wireless power by a wireless power transmitter in a wireless power transmission system and a device using same, the method comprising: entering a power transfer phase related to transferring the wireless power to a wireless power receiver; and detecting an illegal packet during the powe...