ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,464, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"High gain and large beamwidth Rotman-Lens-based and mm-wave energy harvester systems and associated methods" was invented by Aline Eid (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jimmy Georges Donald Hester (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Emmanouil Manos Tentzeris (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device, systems, techniques, and methods for mm-wave energy harvesting utilizing a Rotman-Lens-based rectenna system. An energy harvester system can include one or more antenna, a Rotman Lens having a beam port side and an antenna side in electrical communication with the one or more ante...