Patents by Inventor Soniya Noormuhamed Thekkevalappil

Soniya Noormuhamed Thekkevalappil has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Energy transfer optimization by detecting and mitigating magnetic saturation in wireless charging with foreign object detection
    Patent number: 10014732
    Abstract: A method is provided for optimizing wireless charging of a mobile device by a wireless charger. The method comprises successively reducing transmit power in the wireless charger until an operating wireless transmit power is reached when a power loss occurring during a wireless transmission of power is caused by magnetic saturation, wherein the magnetic saturation occurs in at least one of the mobile device and the wireless charger, wherein the wireless transmission of power is from the wireless charger to the mobile device, and wherein the magnetic saturation is reduced at the operating wireless transmit power, and disabling charging by the wireless charger when the power loss occurring during the wireless transmission of power is caused by a foreign object is present between the mobile device and the wireless charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Joseph Patino, Soniya Noormuhamed Thekkevalappil, Salvador Sibecas
  • Energy Transfer Optimization by Detecting and Mitigating Magnetic Saturation in Wireless Charging with Foreign Object Detection
    Publication number: 20180048190
    Abstract: A method is provided for optimizing wireless charging of a mobile device by a wireless charger. The method comprises successively reducing transmit power in the wireless charger until an operating wireless transmit power is reached when a power loss occurring during a wireless transmission of power is caused by magnetic saturation, wherein the magnetic saturation occurs in at least one of the mobile device and the wireless charger, wherein the wireless transmission of power is from the wireless charger to the mobile device, and wherein the magnetic saturation is reduced at the operating wireless transmit power, and disabling charging by the wireless charger when the power loss occurring during the wireless transmission of power is caused by a foreign object is present between the mobile device and the wireless charger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Joseph Patino, Soniya Noormuhamed Thekkevalappil, Salvador Sibecas
  • Energy transfer optimization by detecting and mitigating magnetic saturation in wireless charging with foreign object detection
    Patent number: 9819232
    Abstract: A method is provided for optimizing wireless charging of a mobile device by a wireless charger. The method comprises determining whether magnetic saturation occurred in at least one of the mobile device and the wireless charger during a first wireless transmission of power from the wireless charger to the mobile device; and, when magnetic saturation is determined to have occurred, successively reducing transmit power in the wireless charger until reaching an operating wireless transmit power, wherein neither the mobile device nor the wireless charger is in magnetic saturation at the operating wireless transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Joseph Patino, Soniya Noormuhamed Thekkevalappil, Salvador Sibecas
  • Energy Transfer Optimization by Detecting and Mitigating Magnetic Saturation in Wireless Charging with Foreign Object Detection
    Publication number: 20160301262
    Abstract: A method is provided for optimizing wireless charging of a mobile device by a wireless charger. The method comprises determining whether magnetic saturation occurred in at least one of the mobile device and the wireless charger during a first wireless transmission of power from the wireless charger to the mobile device; and, when magnetic saturation is determined to have occurred, successively reducing transmit power in the wireless charger until reaching an operating wireless transmit power, wherein neither the mobile device nor the wireless charger is in magnetic saturation at the operating wireless transmit power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Joseph Patino, Soniya Noormuhamed Thekkevalappil, Salvador Sibecas
  • Energy transfer optimization by detecting and mitigating magnetic saturation in wireless charging with foreign object detection
    Patent number: 9391470
    Abstract: A method is provided for optimizing wireless charging of a mobile device by a wireless charger. The method comprises determining whether magnetic saturation occurred in at least one of the mobile device and the wireless charger during a first wireless transmission of power from the wireless charger to the mobile device; and, when magnetic saturation is determined to have occurred, successively reducing transmit power in the wireless charger until reaching an operating wireless transmit power, wherein neither the mobile device nor the wireless charger is in magnetic saturation at the operating wireless transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Joseph Patino, Soniya Noormuhamed Thekkevalappil, Salvador Sibecas
  • Energy Transfer Optimization by Detecting and Mitigating Magnetic Saturation in Wireless Charging with Foreign Object Detection
    Publication number: 20150123602
    Abstract: A method is provided for optimizing wireless charging of a mobile device by a wireless charger. The method comprises determining whether magnetic saturation occurred in at least one of the mobile device and the wireless charger during a first wireless transmission of power from the wireless charger to the mobile device; and, when magnetic saturation is determined to have occurred, successively reducing transmit power in the wireless charger until reaching an operating wireless transmit power, wherein neither the mobile device nor the wireless charger is in magnetic saturation at the operating wireless transmit power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Joseph Patino, Soniya Noormuhamed Thekkevalappil, Salvador Sibecas