US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY on Jan. 28 for "Hybrid wave energy converter and marine buoy system for wave energy harvesting and marine sensing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,568, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).

"Hybrid wave energy converter and marine buoy system for wave energy harvesting and marine sensing" was invented by Changyong Cao (Okemos, Mich.) and Yuhui Fang (Okemos, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A triboelectric-electromagnetic hybrid nanogenerator (TEHG) includes a ball-based triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) and an electromagnetic generator (EMG) configured to move due to exterior fluid movement to generate triboelectric and electromagnetic charging for harvesting wave energy."

The patent was filed on Nov. 18, 2023, under Application N...