ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,076, issued on June 3, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Ultrasonic wave-driven triboelectric generator with self-gap formed using plasma etching" was invented by SangWoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Young Jun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Wook Chung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Joon Ha Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an ultrasonic wave-driven triboelectric generator in which a self-gap is formed using plasma etching. The present invention relates to an ultrasonic wave-driven triboelectric generator having a ...