US Patent Issued to TDK on Aug. 11 for "Energy harvesting module and method of making an energy harvesting module" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,553, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Energy harvesting module and method of making an energy harvesting module" was invented by Vibhu Vivek (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ishita Jain (Milpitas, Calif.), John Sze (Saratoga, Calif.), Ryan Griswold (San Martin, Calif.) and Keisuke Ishida (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy harvesting module and, more particularly, energy harvesting module configured to be coupled to a rotatable component of a vehicle's wheel, and methods of making an energy harvesting module are disclosed. In some embodiments, an energy harvesting system includes: a piezoelectric compo...