ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,537, issued on April 15.

"Electromagnetic vibration and energy harvester" was invented by Dan Haronian (Efrat, Israel) and Michael Haronian (Tzur Hadasa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for achieving a desired vibration resonance frequency of electromagnetic energy harvesters that includes the step of providing a harvester that includes a coil wound along a core, a magnet, a suspending device that includes a base connected to the body and a hinge connected to the magnet, and a stationary magnet attached to the body or the base when the positive poles of the magnets faces each other and the repulsive magnetic force betwe...