ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,220, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NIL Technology ApS (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

"Manufacture of thermoelectric generators and other devices that include metastructures" was invented by James Eilertsen (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing thermoelectric generators or other devices includes imprinting a first replication layer to form a first metastructure, and imprinting a second replication layer to form a second metastructure. The first replication layer is composed of nanoparticles embedded in a polymer, and is disposed on a surface of a first substrate that includes first electri...