US Patent Issued to Inviza on Nov. 25 for "Piezo-elements for wearable devices, including fitness trackers, smart watches and the like" (Texas, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,163, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Inviza Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Piezo-elements for wearable devices, including fitness trackers, smart watches and the like" was invented by Robert G. Andosca (Austin (Cedar Park), Texas), Todd Richard Christenson (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Marcus Taylor (Austin (Cedar Park), Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and structures that scavenge mechanical energy to provide electrical energy to a wearable, where the mechanical energy is scavenged by a bending-strain-based transducer that includes a non-resonant energy harvester. By employin...