ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,550, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Kohler Mira Ltd. (Cheltenham, Great Britain).
"Thermoelectric device" was invented by Daniel Griffiths (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Benjamin Lea (Cheltenham, Great Britain) and Mitchell Connor Hobbs (Gloucester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for generating an electrical current from a temperature differential in an ablutionary fitting. A heat transfer plate includes a projection directly contacting water carried in a first region of the fitting. A thermoelectric module includes one or more thermoelectric elements thermally coupled between the heat transfe...