US Patent Issued to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology on June 30 for "Power generation method and power generating element using humidity variation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,130, issued on June 30, was assigned to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Tokyo).

"Power generation method and power generating element using humidity variation" was invented by Yusuke Komazaki (Tsukuba, Japan), Kenji Kanazawa (Tsukuba, Japan), Taiki Nobeshima (Tsukuba, Japan), Hirotada Hirama (Tsukuba, Japan), Yuichi Watanabe (Tsukuba, Japan) and Sei Uemura (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a power generation method and a power generating element capable of obtaining an electromotive force by utilizing humidity variation in an environment and having excellent operation stabil...