ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,383, issued on May 13, was assigned to University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Thermoelectric composite with high-entropy alloy dispersed and method for preparing the same" was invented by Jong-Soo Rhyee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jin Hee Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Gyeongim Min (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a thermoelectric composite with high-entropy alloy dispersed including a thermoelectric material TE having a composition in a formula TE(x %)+M(y %), and high-entropy alloy particles M having a composition in the formula and dispersed in th...