US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Oct. 14 for "Integrated thermoelectric film based woven power generator" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,469, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Integrated thermoelectric film based woven power generator" was invented by Kazuaki Yazawa (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoelectric module includes two insulating substrates supporting a plurality of thermoelectric fingers. Each thermoelectric finger has alternating strips of n-type doped material and p-type doped material, wherein adjacent n-type doped strips and p-type doped strips are separated by and electrically coupled to conductive regions. The thermoelectric fingers run in a first direction and are spaced a...