US Patent Issued to The University of Tokyo on Feb. 17 for "Thermoelectric conversion element and thermoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,552, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Thermoelectric conversion element and thermoelectric conversion device" was invented by Satoru Nakatsuji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoelectric conversion element is made of an alloy including a transition metal. The alloy is a compound having a crystal structure including a Kagome lattice plane constituted by the transition metal, and exhibits an anomalous Nernst effect. A thermoelectric conversion device includes a substrate and a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements on the substrate. Each of the plurality of thermoelectric conversi...