US Patent Issued to Nexperia on Dec. 16 for "Energy harvester to convert incident radio frequency energy to direct current as well as a corresponding method and sensor comprising the energy harvester" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,443, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nexperia B.V. (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

"Energy harvester to convert incident radio frequency energy to direct current as well as a corresponding method and sensor comprising the energy harvester" was invented by Andre Luis Rodrigues Mansano (Delft, Netherlands), Omar Vince Link (Delft, Netherlands) and Simon Van Der Jagt (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy harvester (RF) to convert incident radio frequency, RF, energy associated with an RF signal to direct current energy comprises a rectifier (5) comprising a pre-storage capacitor (4), wherein said rectifier is arranged...