US Patent Issued to Morgan State University on Sept. 9 for "Manufacturing of a flexible piezoelectric film-based power source" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,469, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Morgan State University (Baltimore).

"Manufacturing of a flexible piezoelectric film-based power source" was invented by Birol Ozturk (Parkville, Md.) and Peker Milas (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric element for generating electricity upon flexing of the element including the steps spin-coating a first substrate layer onto a support substrate; depositing a first electrode film onto the first substrate layer; spin coating polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) containing solution on the first electrode film to result in a PVDF film; annealing the PVDF...