ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,971, issued on June 16, was assigned to Trudell Medical International Inc. (London, Canada).

"Medical device with energy harvesting system" was invented by Neritan Alizoti (London, Canada), Sam Bender (Thornhill, Canada), Adam Meyer (London, Canada), Geoffrey Nielsen (London, Canada), Bart Nowak (London, Canada) and Peter Scarrott (London, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a user interface component and an energy harvesting system coupled to the user interface component. The energy harvesting system energy includes a harvesting component, a power storage device connected to the energy harvesting componen...