US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Device for real-time monitoring and early warning of bridge based on foldable triboelectric nanogenerators" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,990, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Device for real-time monitoring and early warning of bridge based on foldable triboelectric nanogenerators" was invented by Pengcheng Jiao (Hangzhou, China), Hao Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Wentao Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for real-time monitoring and early warning a bridge based on foldable triboelectric nanogenerators, comprising a signal generator, a data acquisition and transmission module, and a data processing and early warning module sequentially connected. The signal generator comprises an internal unit and an exter...