ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,932, issued on June 9, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Foreign object detection based on transmitter input parameter" was invented by Chan Young Jeong (San Jose, Calif.), Tao Qi (San Diego), Young Chul Ryu (San Jose, Calif.), Kwangmuk Choi (Cupertino, Calif.), Pooja Agrawal (Milpitas, Calif.), Krishal Jaswantsinh Solanki (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Adnan Dzebic (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for detecting a foreign object on a wireless power charging region are described. A circuit can detect an object inductively coupled to a wireless power transm...