ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,462, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Multi-capacitor energy harvesting" was invented by Minghui Chen (San Diego), Andrea Fenaroli (San Diego), Chengjin Zhang (San Diego) and Yiwu Tang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed for multi-capacitor energy harvesting. In example aspects, the apparatus includes energy storage including a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The apparatus also includes an energy harvester including at least one rectifier and one or more switches. The switches can be controlled to initially charge the first capacitor and subsequently charge the secon...