ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,528, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Transmit coil selection responsive to average peak to peak measurement voltage potentials and related apparatuses and method" was invented by Santosh Bhandarkar (Chandler, Ariz.) and Alex Dumais (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object detection in wireless power systems and related system, methods, and devices are disclosed. A controller for a wireless power transmitter includes a measurement voltage potential input terminal and a processing core. The processing core is to determine an average of peak to peak amplitude differences pres...