US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System on Sept. 23 for "Self-sustainable triboelectric energy case for powering devices" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,950, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Self-sustainable triboelectric energy case for powering devices" was invented by Mohammed Jasim Uddin (Edinburg, Texas), Abu Musa Abdullah (Edinburg, Texas) and Alejandro Flores (Edinburg, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power and/or electricity generating source and/or component that is TENG-based, and that may be configured as an assembly and/or component for powering one or more electronic devices, is disclosed, a case, carrier or other carrying container, for example a case for a cell phone, ipad, electronic t...