US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Jan. 28 for "Thermoelectric power generation system and control method therefor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,380, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Thermoelectric power generation system and control method therefor" was invented by Hiromasa Tamaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoelectric power generation system includes a first flow path for a first fluid, a second flow path for a second fluid, a temperature of the second fluid being lower than a temperature of the first fluid, a thermoelectric module between the first flow path and the second flow path, and a controller configured to switch between a power generation mode and a heating mode. In the p...