ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,454, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to E-PEAS (Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

"Device and method for efficient energy harvesting" was invented by Robin Parez (Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), Geoffroy Gosset (Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and Julien De Vos (Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management device is provided that includes a voltage converter, a power point tracker for determining an operational voltage for extracting power and a controller. The device has a sensing device configured for: monitoring an energy harvesting signal, comparing the energy harvesting signa...