ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,638, issued on April 21, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Triboelectric energy generating device including ferroelectric composite and driven by ultrasonic wave" was invented by SangWoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Young Jun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Bo Sung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Wook Chung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Joon Ha Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A triboelectric energy generating device including: a first triboelectric layer made of a conductive material; a second triboelectric layer made of the ferroelectric compos...