US Patent Issued to National Institute for Materials Science on Sept. 1 for "Thermoelectric power generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,383, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to National Institute for Materials Science (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Thermoelectric power generation device" was invented by Yuya Sakuraba (Tsukuba, Japan), Bunpei Masaoka (Tsukuba, Japan), Kenichi Uchida (Tsukuba, Japan) and Weinan Zhou (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Object] To provide a thermoelectric power generation device that efficiently utilizes thermal energy/heat flow passing through a power generation module/heat flow sensor.[Solving Means] It includes a plurality of magnetic wires 21 that is formed of a single magnetic material with large thermoelectric power due to an anomal...