US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics America on Sept. 22 for "Wireless power transmitter implementing low power pre-charging for foreign object detection in a semiconductor device" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,410, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Wireless power transmitter implementing low power pre-charging for foreign object detection in a semiconductor device" was invented by Gustavo James Mehas (Fall City, Wash.) and Giovanni Figliozzi (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a semiconductor device is disclosed that includes a buffer circuit that is configured to selectively output a charge signal to an inductor-capacitor node of a power driver to charge the inductor-capacitor node to a predetermined voltage level and an amplifier circuit that is configured to m...