US Patent Issued to Sheetak on Sept. 15 for "Method of manufacturing thermoelectric devices with insulators" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,322, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sheetak Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Method of manufacturing thermoelectric devices with insulators" was invented by Uttam Ghoshal (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is related to structures and methods of making thermoelectric devices. The methods may include preparing an electrically and thermally nonconductive substrate covered with gold-nickel-gold layers. In another step, cylindrical or frustum-shaped tunnels may be formed through the substrate and the gold-nickel-gold layers. Another step may include depositing a barrier layer on the walls of the tunnels that resists...