US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Feb. 17 for "Thermoelectric conversion element and thermoelectric conversion module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,549, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Thermoelectric conversion element and thermoelectric conversion module" was invented by Miho Uehara (Osaka, Japan), Yuriko Kaneko (Nara, Japan), Atsushi Ono (Kyoto, Japan), Masashige Kawabe (Kyoto, Japan), Tsutomu Kanno (Kyoto, Japan), Hiromasa Tamaki (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroki Sato (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fabrication method of a thermoelectric conversion element includes forming a first metal layer containing Cu on a first surface of a thermoelectric conversion layer, and forming a first electrode and a f...