ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,820, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Guangdong Ocean University (Zhanjiang, China).

"Turbulence-enhanced liquid-solid friction nano power generation device" was invented by Qianxi Zhang (Zhanjiang, China), Shishi Li (Zhanjiang, China), Qing Xu (Zhanjiang, China), Jin Yan (Zhanjiang, China), Peng Zhang (Zhanjiang, China), Yan Liu (Zhanjiang, China), Yaokang Zhang (Zhanjiang, China), Tengqing Liu (Zhanjiang, China), Denghui Li (Zhanjiang, China) and Xiaopeng Luo (Zhanjiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbulence-enhanced liquid-solid friction nano power generation device is provided, including multiple power generation co...