ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,020, issued on July 14, was assigned to E-ThermoGentek Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Thermoelectric power generation system" was invented by Takashi Uno (Kyoto, Japan), Nao Majima (Kyoto, Japan), Michio Okajima (Kyoto, Japan), Keiichi Ohata (Kyoto, Japan), Shutaro Nambu (Kyoto, Japan), Makoto Goda (Kobe, Japan), Minoru Nakayasu (Kobe, Japan), Yoma Kaneda (Kobe, Japan), Masamichi Sakaguchi (Tokyo), Takahide Yanagida (Kusatsu, Japan) and Yusei Maeda (Kusatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoelectric power generation system 20 includes a heat exchanger 1 having double tubes which are an inner tube 1a and an outer tube 1b, and a...