Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7898156 - Piezoelectric nanowire electrical generator

This patent is from Georgia Tech Research Corporation and teaches a small scale electrical generator formed from piezoelectric nanowires which may be useful to power biomedical implants. Claim 1 reads:

1. A method of generating electricity, comprising the actions of:

a. growing a plurality of living cells on an array of piezoelectric nanowires so that the cells engage the piezoelectric nanowires; and

b. extracting induced static potentials from at least one of the piezoelectric nanowires when at least one of the cells deforms the at least one of the piezoelectric nanowires.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).