US Patent Issued to Sharp on Feb. 17 for "Determining and communicating recharging time of an energy harvesting device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,042, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Determining and communicating recharging time of an energy harvesting device" was invented by Kenneth James Park (Cathlamet, Wash.), Tomoki Yoshimura (Camas, Wash.) and Atsushi Ishii (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy harvesting electronic device that includes an energy storage device and a processor is provided. The processor is configured to determine that the electronic device has a first message to transmit to another electronic device. The processor determines that the device has enough energy required for transmitting the first message a...