ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,433, issued on June 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Electronic circuit assemblies for capturing electrical energy" was invented by Harish Bharti (Pune, India), Mukundan Sundararajan (Bangalore, India), Sandeep Sukhija (Rajasthan, India), Deepak Bajaj (Leicester, Great Britain) and Bryan Sacks (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic circuit assemblies are provided, with an electronic circuit assembly including a transducer circuit to generate electrical energy based on applied pressure, and a static-electricity capture circuit to capture electrical energy from static-electr...