ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,321, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SINKO Co. LTD. (Uonuma, Japan).

"Thermoelectric conversion module" was invented by Tetsutsugu Hamano (Fukuroi, Japan) and Takahiro Hayashi (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a technique for sealing a plurality of thermoelectric elements in a thermoelectric conversion module.A thermoelectric conversion module includes a substrate, a plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of thermoelectric elements, a cover portion, and a pair of terminal electrodes. The substrate has an electrode surface on which a plurality of first electrodes are provided. The plurality of secon...