US Patent Issued on Oct. 14 for "Integrated battery comprising a secondary battery with charge maintained by a semiconductor battery" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,468, issued on Oct. 14.

"Integrated battery comprising a secondary battery with charge maintained by a semiconductor battery" was invented by William N Carr (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor primary battery is packaged with a secondary rechargeable battery to provide an integrated battery. The primary battery operation is based on a pixelated array of thermocouples which extracts power from the surrounding unheated thermal environment. An internal temperature differential is obtained with phononic MEMS structured micro-platforms. Pixels in the primary battery permit charging the secondary battery. The ...