Patent ID: 11929629
Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A device that is operative to transfer power and communicate wirelessly, the device comprising:
a first coil;
a drive-sense circuit (DSC) operably coupled to the first coil, wherein, when enabled, the DSC configured to:
provide a drive signal to the first coil via a single line and via a resonating capacitor and simultaneously to sense the drive signal including to sense one or more electrical characteristics of the drive signal via the single line, wherein, the drive signal is operative to transfer power wirelessly from the first coil to a second coil associated with another device via electromagnetic coupling between the first coil and the second coil; and
generate a digital signal representative of the one or more electrical characteristics of the drive signal; and

memory that stores operational instructions; and
one or more processing modules operably coupled to the DSC and the memory, wherein, when enabled, the one or more processing modules is configured to execute the operational instructions to:
process the digital signal representative of the one or more electrical characteristics of the drive signal to determine the one or more electrical characteristics of the drive signal including to determine whether a communication signal is transmitted from the another device to the device via the electromagnetic coupling between the first coil and the second coil.