US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of UA, for and on behalf of UAH on Dec. 16 for "Triboelectric generator systems and methods for energy harvesting and sensing applications" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,530, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Board of Trustees of UA, for and on behalf of UAH (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Triboelectric generator systems and methods for energy harvesting and sensing applications" was invented by Gang Wang (Madison, Ala.), Yu Lei (Madison, Ala.), Moonhyung Jang (Madison, Ala.) and Jacob Lee (Toney, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A triboelectric generator can include respective contact members including a first contact member and second contact member. The respective contact members can be movable with respect to each other such that the respective contact members separate from each other in a first configu...