ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,936, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Power generation device and method based on time-varying magductance principle" was invented by Ming Cheng (Nanjing, China), Wei Qin (Nanjing, China), Xinkai Zhu (Nanjing, China), Zheng Wang (Nanjing, China) and Wei Hua (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generation device and method based on the time-varying magductance principle relate to the field of energy conversion, and in particular relate to an electromagnetic induction power generation device. The power generation device includes an electric energy generation unit, a power conv...