US Patent Issued to DUALITY REALITY ENERGY on Sept. 1 for "Energy harvesting with a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS)" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,142, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DUALITY REALITY ENERGY LLC (Aiken, S.C.).

"Energy harvesting with a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS)" was invented by Jeffrey Paul Baugher (Aiken, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and method are described to create an energy harvesting microstructure, referred to herein as a transduction micro-electro mechanical system (T-MEMS). A T-MEMS includes a substrate, a first buckled membrane, the first buckled membrane has a buckling axis and is connected to the substrate. The first buckled membrane further includes a transduction material, a first conductor, the first conductor is...