US Patent Issued to EM Microelectronic-Marin on June 23 for "Energy harvesting with dual buffer capacitor arrangement" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,391, issued on June 23, was assigned to EM Microelectronic-Marin SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"Energy harvesting with dual buffer capacitor arrangement" was invented by Kevin Scott Buescher (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (10) including an energy harvesting circuit (12) connectable to an antenna (14) and configured to execute an autonomous matching procedure to match the antenna (14) to an electric load (15), a buffer capacitor (16) connected to the energy harvesting circuit (14) and chargeable by the energy harvesting circuit (14), and a control circuit (20) connected to the energy harvesting circuit (14...