Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'A Hybrid Piezoelectric-triboelectric Kinetic Energy Harvesting Floor Mat' Filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology

MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641007490 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 26, for 'a hybrid piezoelectric-triboelectric kinetic energy harvesting floor mat.'

Inventor(s) include Satyam Aman; Shubham Kumar; and Sumit Kumar Jindal.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 13, under issue no. 07/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A hybrid kinetic energy harvesting floor mat is disclosed for converting mechanical energy generated by human footsteps into electrical energy. The floor mat comprises a load-bearing structure incorporating a mechanically coupled multilayer architecture (100) ...