US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on June 17 for "Metal air scavenger-an energy harvesting technology for powering electronics and robotics" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,532, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Metal air scavenger-an energy harvesting technology for powering electronics and robotics" was invented by James Henry Pikul (Philadelphia) and Min Wang (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are metal-air scavenger systems that use metal surfaces to harvest energy for powering microelectronic devices; such devices can be attached to exposed metal surfaces and then generate power by electrochemically oxidizing the metal surface. The disclosed devices can be configured to effect relative motion between the device and ...