ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,527, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Energy collection device and rectifier circuit" was invented by Yoshitaka Yoshino (Tokyo) and Yuta Toeda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy collection device that increases output power to be collected is provided. Provided is an energy collection device that includes: an antenna unit having a dipole structure, the antenna unit including a first antenna element that is in contact with an industrial product metal portion or a human body and functions as an antenna, and a second antenna element including a conductor, ...