US Patent Issued to LG INNOTEK on March 17 for "Method for detecting foreign material, and apparatus and system therefor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,426, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for detecting foreign material, and apparatus and system therefor" was invented by Jae Hee Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission method for a wireless power transmitter, the power transmission method including receiving, from a wireless power receiver, a packet including a foreign object detection (FOD) status packet; determining whether a foreign object is present in a charging area of the wireless power transmitter based on the FOD status packet; and generating a foreign object detection indicator indic...