US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Mitsubishi Electric on March 24 for "Device and method for magnetic refrigeration" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,663, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Device and method for magnetic refrigeration" was invented by Chungwei Lin (Cambridge, Mass.), Bingnan Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), William Vetterling (Cambridge, Mass.), Shun Tonooka (Tokyo) and Atsushi Ogasahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for magnetic refrigeration is provided. The system includes a layered structure formed by a sequence of a plurality of magnetocaloric material (MCM) components interlinked with a sequence of a plurality of Peltier modules. Each Peltier ...