US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 25 for "Thermoelectric conversion material, thermoelectric conversion element, thermoelectric conversion module, and method for producing the thermoelectric conversion material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,639, issued on March 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Thermoelectric conversion material, thermoelectric conversion element, thermoelectric conversion module, and method for producing the thermoelectric conversion material" was invented by Fuyuki Ando (Osaka, Japan) and Hiromasa Tamaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoelectric conversion material according to the present disclosure includes Ge, Te, and Sb. The thermoelectric conversion material includes a first region and a second region. The content of Sb in the first region in terms of number density of at...