US Patent Issued to University of Louisville Research Foundation on Nov. 18 for "Electrical contact array for harvesting power from a power circuit" (Kentucky Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,181, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Electrical contact array for harvesting power from a power circuit" was invented by Cindy Harnett (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry and circuit elements allow harvesting of power. Some embodiments of the invention are circuits that include a contact array, with redundant external electrical contacts, providing a physical interface configured to extract power from a power source for an electronic device in contact with a larger underlying circuit without needing any alignment. The contact array includes...