US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Dec. 9 for "Energy harvester, method and system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,615, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Energy harvester, method and system" was invented by Christopher Hern (Porter, Texas), Daniel Ewing (Katy, Texas), Andrew Duggan (Meadows Place, Texas), Ronnie Russell (Cypress, Texas), Kamalesh Chatterjee (Tomball, Texas) and Scott P. Christopher (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy harvester, including a housing, an impeller supported in the housing, an agitator operably connected to the impeller, and a piezoelectric member supported by the housing, the member deflectable by the agitator due to rotation of the impeller. A method of g...