ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,120, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Power management integrated circuit for harvesting energy and energy harvesting system including the same" was invented by Sang-Gug Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Seok Noh (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong-Il Seo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Won-Jong Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management integrated circuit includes a reconfigurable converter connected to a rechargeable battery and a control circuit. The reconfigurable converter includes an inductor to accumulate energy based on an inp...