ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,129, issued on May 27, was assigned to STATE GRID SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (Shanghai).

"Adaptive control electromagnetic induction energy harvesting method and system for a power transmission line" was invented by Bing He (Shanghai), Lingjing Hu (Shanghai), Xing Miao (Shanghai), Ming Zhang (Shanghai), Bin Xu (Shanghai), Jiaying Mao (Shanghai), Wei Zhang (Shanghai), Weijun Chen (Shanghai), Yiming Fan (Shanghai), Yuhao Li (Shanghai) and Yunwei Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an adaptive control electromagnetic induction energy harvesting method and system for a power transmission line. The meth...