ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,239, issued on May 20, was assigned to EMBR Labs IP LLC (Boston).
"Low power thermoelectric systems" was invented by Kristen Warren (Cambridge, Mass.), Locklin George (Boston), Sarah Horton (San Carlos, Calif.), Caitlynn Tov (Sacramento, Calif.), Matthew Dowling (Hillsborough, N.J.), Xuchen He (Malden, Mass.) and Matthew J. Smith (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for manipulating the temperature of a surface may include a heat transfer surface including active portions and a passive portion. The passive portion may include an inner passive portion disposed between each of the active portions and/or may includ...