US Patent Issued to E-PEAS on Dec. 9 for "Method and device for energy harvesting using a power management integrated circuit with a cold-start voltage converter and a main voltage converter system" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,670, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to E-PEAS S.A. (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium).

"Method and device for energy harvesting using a power management integrated circuit with a cold-start voltage converter and a main voltage converter system" was invented by Julien De Vos (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium) and Geoffroy Gosset (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for energy harvesting is provided that uses an auxiliary energy storage device as a voltage source for the controller of a main voltage converter system. The auxiliary energy storage device is initially charged with a cold-start voltage converter and th...