US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on March 25 for "Controlling device having an energy harvesting feature" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,238, issued on March 25, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Controlling device having an energy harvesting feature" was invented by Rex Xu (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) and Ara Gharapetian (Porter Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controlling device has at least a light-based energy harvesting system disposed within the controlling device housing. The light-based energy harvesting system is operative to supply power to at least one of a processing device and a transmitter of the controlling device. The light-based energy harvesting system includes s a substrate having a photovoltaic (PV) active ...