US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 23 for "Wired vibration energy transfer system and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,526, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Wired vibration energy transfer system and method" was invented by Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ziqi Yu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yukihiro Tadokoro (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Danil Prokhorov (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy harvesting system capable of using vibrational or mechanical energy to direct energy along a line to an energy receiver to transfer the vibrational energy. The energy harvesting system includes an energy transmitt...