US Patent Issued to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology on July 1 for "Self-powered formaldehyde sensing device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,679, issued on July 1, was assigned to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Self-powered formaldehyde sensing device" was invented by Chih-Yu Chang (Taipei, Taiwan), Chun-Yi Ho (Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Hsuan Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ying-Ying Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a self-powered formaldehyde sensing device, comprising: a triboelectric material electrode layer including a first substrate and a first electrode layer formed on the first substrate; a triboelectric material dielectric layer including a second substrate, a second electrode layer formed on the second...