US Patent Issued to NEC on July 8 for "Heat-flow sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,637, issued on July 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Heat-flow sensor" was invented by Akihiro Kirihara (Tokyo), Masahiko Ishida (Tokyo), Yuma Iwasaki (Tokyo), Yasutomo Omori (Tokyo), Hiroko Someya (Tokyo) and Sadanori Hattori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat-flow sensor that includes an insulating layer, a magnetic field application layer arranged on a first surface of the insulating layer and composed of a conductor, and a heat-flow detection layer arranged on a second surface of the insulating layer, the second surface facing the first surface, and the heat-flow detection layer composed of a conductive magnetic bo...