US Patent Issued to PUKYONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION on June 2 for "Ionic hydrogel-based energy harvester" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,051, issued on June 2, was assigned to PUKYONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Busan, South Korea).

"Ionic hydrogel-based energy harvester" was invented by Seong Il Yoo (Busan, South Korea), Ja Min Koo (Busan, South Korea) and Merreta Noorenza Biutty (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a polymer hydrogel-based ion energy harvester, which is designed to harvest low-frequency mechanical vibrations by using slow diffusion of ions, as an alternative to a conventional energy harvesting technique based on electron transfer or electron conduction. The ionic hydro...