US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF EXETER on Sept. 23 for "Energy harvesting and a rail monitoring arrangement incorporating same" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,874, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Exeter, Great Britain).

"Energy harvesting and a rail monitoring arrangement incorporating same" was invented by Zheng Jun Chew (Exeter, Great Britain), Yang Kuang (Exeter, Great Britain), Tingwen Ruan (Exeter, Great Britain) and Meiling Zhu (Exeter, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an energy harvesting arrangement for use in the harvesting of magnetic field energy from a source in the form of a rail of a railway network, the energy harvesting arrangement comprising an energy harvester arranged in proximity to the rail or a component electrically...