US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 18 for "Harnessing artesian aquifer energy modulating piezoelectric springs" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,104, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Harnessing artesian aquifer energy modulating piezoelectric springs" was invented by Jagabondhu Hazra (Bangalore, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Manikandan Padmanaban (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventive concept provides for a method of harnessing artesian aquifer power. The method includes obtaining weather data and artesian aquifer data for a geolocation. Weather features and artesian aquifer features are extracted from the obtained weather data and artesian aquifer data, respectively. Com...