US Patent Issued to SHIMCO NORTH AMERICA on May 13 for "1D/2D hybrid piezoelectric nanogenerator and method for making same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,139, issued on May 13, was assigned to SHIMCO NORTH AMERICA INC. (Cambridge, Canada).

"1D/2D hybrid piezoelectric nanogenerator and method for making same" was invented by Alam Mahmud (Waterloo, Canada), Asif Abdullah Khan (Waterloo, Canada), Dayan Ban (Waterloo, Canada) and Peter Voss (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) that is capable of harvesting mechanical energy into electricity. The PENG comprises one dimensional (1D) and two dimensional (2D) nanostructures integrated together to form a composite nanostructure. A major advantage of the present ...