US Patent Issued to Auburn University on June 16 for "Multi-layered electrocaloric heat pump systems and methods" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,027, issued on June 16, was assigned to Auburn University (Auburn, Ala.).

"Multi-layered electrocaloric heat pump systems and methods" was invented by Zhongyang Cheng (Aurburn, Ala.), Farrukh Najmi (Aurburn, Ala.) and Wei Yi (Auburn, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one illustrative embodiment, a cooling system includes a heat source, multiple electrocaloric material layers coupled to the heat source, and a heat sink coupled to the electrocaloric material layers. An electric field applied to each electrocaloric material layer is independently controllable. The electric field applied to each electrocaloric material laye...