US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC on Aug. 11 for "Aerosol jet printing and sintering of thermoelectric devices" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,893, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC (South Bend, Ind.).

"Aerosol jet printing and sintering of thermoelectric devices" was invented by Yanliang Zhang (South Bend, Ind.) and Mortaza Saeidi-Javash (South Bend, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, ink compositions, and 3D conformal printed flexible films. The method may include aerosol jet printing a thermoelectric ink composition, followed by photonic or other sintering of the ink to remove surfactant included therein, and to convert the thermoelectric nanoparticles of the ink composition into a dense structure capable of charge carrier trans...