US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore on May 27 for "Method and device for energy transfer and harvesting" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,388, issued on May 27, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Method and device for energy transfer and harvesting" was invented by Jerald Yoo (Singapore), Jiamin Li (Singapore), Yilong Dong (Singapore) and Jeong Hoan Park (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power receiver (301a, 301b, 301c, 301d, 301e, 301f) is disclosed herein. In a specific embodiment the power receiver has a first electrode (300) arranged to be electrically coupled to a body (105) of a living being, the first electrode (300) operable to receive an electrical signal via the body; and a rectifier (307) for rectifying the electrical s...