US Patent Issued to NuCurrent on Nov. 4 for "Slotted foreign object detection during wireless power transfer" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,470, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NuCurrent Inc. (Chicago).

"Slotted foreign object detection during wireless power transfer" was invented by Mark Melone (Frankfort, Ill.), Alberto Peralta (Chicago) and Michael Katz (Glen Ellyn, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power transmitter is configured to (i) detect a presence of a wireless power receiver that is couplable with the wireless power transmitter, (ii) after detecting the presence of the wireless power receiver, initiate wireless power transfer with the wireless power receiver, (iii) detect that a given amount of time has elapsed since a prior reference point, (iv...