ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,590, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
"Energy harvesting system" was invented by Pengcheng Xu (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), David Bol (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and Denis Flandre (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an energy harvesting system, a power extraction circuit extracts electrical power from an environmental power source susceptible of providing a level of power that fluctuates. An electrical power storage device stores the electrical power extracted from the environmental power source by the power extraction circuit. A sensing circuit p...