ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,642, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Directed energy conversion and distribution" was invented by Madhu Akhilesham (Pune, India), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India) and Akash U. Dhoot (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy conversion and distribution can include converting sound energy to electrical energy using one or more energy converters positioned within a predetermined area. Multiple devices can be classified to indicate an energy requirement of each device, and the electrical ener...