ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,985, issued on March 11.

"Voltage comparator circuit for use with an energy harvester" was invented by Feng Lu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Jing Jung Tang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage comparator circuit for a power source having an energy harvester and an energy storage. The circuit comprises a first voltage input node and a second voltage input node arranged to respectively receive a first voltage level of a first output of the energy harvester and a voltage level of a second output of the energy storage; an output node arranged to switch in response to a comparison of the first and second first volt...