US Patent Issued to University of Massachusetts on Oct. 21 for "Electric power generation from ambient humidity using protein nanowires" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,821, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Boston).

"Electric power generation from ambient humidity using protein nanowires" was invented by Jun Yao (Boston), Derek Lovley (Amherst, Mass.) and Xiaomeng Liu (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power generation system is provided. The electric power generation system includes an electric power generation device and an ambient environment comprising an atmospheric relative humidity of at least 20%. The electric power generation device includes a thin film of protein nanowires or a nanowire composite, the thin film having an opposing first surface...