US Patent Issued to TDK on Oct. 14 for "Piezoelectric energy harvesters and sensors based on strain in mechanical structures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,066, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Piezoelectric energy harvesters and sensors based on strain in mechanical structures" was invented by Ryan Griswold (San Jose, Calif.) and Vibhu Vivek (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Piezoelectric devices mountable on a rigid mechanical structure are described. A piezoelectric device includes one or more piezoelectric elements and one or more supporting structures. A respective supporting structure of the one or more supporting structures has a flat or non-flat surface and is mechanically coupled with a piezoelectric element of the one or more piezoelectric ...