US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of The University of Arkansas on Aug. 5 for "Device for ambient thermal and vibration energy harvesting" (Arkansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,418, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Board of Trustees of The University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Ark.).

"Device for ambient thermal and vibration energy harvesting" was invented by Paul Thibado (Fayetteville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit on a chip may include a plurality of capacitors that are connected in series and generate an AC noise signal. A selected bandwidth of the AC noise signal transmits through the series of capacitors as a first AC power signal. Respective rectifiers are positioned for receiving a positive cycle of the first AC power signal and a negative cycle of the first AC power signal...