US Patent Issued to University of Massachusetts on Feb. 10 for "Devices and methods for energy harvesting from air humidity" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,114, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Westborough, Mass.).

"Devices and methods for energy harvesting from air humidity" was invented by Jun Yao (Boston) and Xiaomeng Liu (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy harvesting devices and methods are provided. An energy harvesting device includes an adsorption layer comprising a nanoporous material and at least two electrodes in operative arrangement with the adsorption layer. The nanoporous material comprises a nonbiological nanoporous material, a nonprotein biological nanoporous material, or a combination thereof. The adsorption layer and at least tw...