ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,580, issued on July 1.
"Nuclear battery including flexible nuclear battery module" was invented by Po-Lin Chen (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chih-Tsung Kuo (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear battery module is adapted for a nuclear battery. The nuclear battery module includes a radioactive unit and at least one energy conversion unit. The radioactive unit includes a soft substrate and at least one radioactive layer disposed on the soft substrate. The at least one radioactive layer includes a Beta-ray source. The at least one energy conversion unit includes a flexible carrier layer, an N-type semiconductor layer dispose...