Google Inc.

Robert Thomas Shone

Srikanth Lakshmikanthan

Srenik Suresh Mehta

Liang Jia

Rahul A Apte

Jae-Won Hwang

Qi Tian

Liyu Yang

Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu

Methods, systems, and techniques for safely controlling wireless charging in the presence of a foreign object are presented. A method includes determining a power difference between a power transmitted by a wireless charger and a power received by an electronic device, determining a level of misalignment of the electronic device with respect to the wireless charger; estimating an amount of power difference due to the level of misalignment of the electronic device with respect to the wireless charger, adjusting a power difference threshold for the wireless charger based on the estimated amount of power difference, and controlling operation of the wireless charger based on the power difference and the adjusted power difference threshold.

Controlling wireless charging

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Robert Thomas Shone