US Patent Issued on July 15 for "Energy harvesting methods for providing autonomous electrical power to mobile devices" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,270, issued on July 15.

"Energy harvesting methods for providing autonomous electrical power to mobile devices" was invented by Clark D Boyd (Hampton, Va.), Bradbury R Face (Smithfield, Va.) and Jeffrey D Shepard (Norco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that integrates an autonomous energy harvesting capacity in a mobile device in an aesthetically neutral manner. A unique set of structural features combine to implement a hidden energy harvesting system on a surface of the mobile device body structure or casing to provide electrical power to the mobile device, and/or to individually electrically-powered compo...