US Patent Issued to CAIRDAC on March 11 for "Energy harvesting module with dual-cantilever piezoelectric transducer, in particular for powering a leadless autonomous cardiac capsule" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,887, issued on March 11, was assigned to CAIRDAC (Antony, France).

"Energy harvesting module with dual-cantilever piezoelectric transducer, in particular for powering a leadless autonomous cardiac capsule" was invented by Alaa Makdissi (Paris), Willy Regnier (Longjumeau, France), An Nguyen-Dinh (La Riche, France), Julien Dohin (Vanves, France), Steeven Vassal (Tours, France) and Thien Hoang (Tours, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy harvesting module includes a pendular unit with piezoelectric transducer elastically deformable in bending between a clamped end and a free end coupled to an inertial mass. The piezoelectric...