US Patent Issued to Nanyang Technological University on Dec. 30 for "Energy harvester and method of harvesting energy" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,741, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Energy harvester and method of harvesting energy" was invented by Kaushik Parida (Singapore) and Pooi See Lee (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy harvester having an electromagnet and a triboelectric nanogenerator. The triboelectric nanogenerator has triboelectric layers configured to be spaced apart by a gap width. Displacement of a magnet of the electromagnet is configured to enable the triboelectric layers to contact one another, in which the gap width is configured to be smaller than the displacement."

The patent was filed on F...