ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,484, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Energy harvesting unit and operating method thereof" was invented by Peter Thuringer (Graz, Austria), Ulrich Andreas Muehlmann (Graz, Austria), Daniel Lopez-Diaz (Graz, Austria), Franz Amtmann (Graz, Austria) and Yoganathan Sivakumar (Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy harvesting unit includes a plurality of antennas configured to receive one or more signals and a plurality of first charge pumps, in which each of the first charge pumps is operatively coupled to one of the antennas, thereby forming pairs of antennas and first charge pumps. ...