US Patent Issued to ILLUMINUS on Aug. 4 for "Energy harvesting device and energy harvesting system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,828, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ILLUMINUS INC. (Tokyo).

"Energy harvesting device and energy harvesting system" was invented by Hiroshi Goto (Tokyo), Minoru Sakata (Tokyo), Takuo Yasuda (Tokyo), Lars Mattias Andersson (Tokyo), Seiji Okada (Tokyo) and Takahiro Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy harvesting device configured to convert thermal energy into electrical energy includes a heat storage portion configured to store thermal energy, a thermoelectric element configured to eliminate a temperature difference between electrodes when converting thermal energy into electrical energy, and an insulating portio...