US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 14 for "Piezoelectric and thermoelectric solar panel assembly" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,535, issued on July 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Piezoelectric and thermoelectric solar panel assembly" was invented by Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Jagabondhu Hazra (Bangalore, India) and Manikandan Padmanaban (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric and thermoelectric solar panel assembly includes a solar panel, a cold mirror, and a support panel. The piezoelectric and thermoelectric solar panel assembly also includes piezoelectric generator assembly disposed between the cold mirror and the support panel. The piezoelectric and thermoelectric solar panel...