ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,667, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Wireless power transmitting device and method of detecting foreign substances by wireless power transmitting device" was invented by Hyoungseok Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeyeol Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seonghun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Gyunghwan Yook (Seoul, South Korea) and Hongkwon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transmitting device according to an embodiment of the present specification transmits wireless power to a wireless power receiving device, and includes a power conversion circuit including a primary...