US Patent Issued on Sept. 8 for "Energy harvesting system and method for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,684, issued on Sept. 8.

"Energy harvesting system and method for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy" was invented by Matthew Alan Kaskowicz (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gravity-assist energy harvesting system incorporates a gravitational positive displacement pump. The gravitational positive displacement pump has a cylinder and a reciprocating piston inside the cylinder. The piston is adapted for movement along a compression stroke and an opposite extension stroke in response to a gravitational bounce. A fluid drive assembly is operatively connected to the gravitational positive displacement pump...