ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,910, issued on May 5, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Method and system for operating a sensor device" was invented by Reddy Nili Bhaskar (Bangalore, India), Appadurai Balaji (Bangalore, India) and V N Pranathy (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for operating a sensor device includes generating an electrical energy corresponding to a heat dissipated from a surface of an equipment, regulating the electrical energy to generate an optimum output voltage using a maximum power point tracking technique and feeding the optimum output voltage to charge an energy storage device, triggering...