ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,720, issued on June 24, was assigned to Rolls-Royce plc (London).
"Thermoelectric generator system and method" was invented by Jia Li (Singapore), Seok Woo Lee (Singapore) and Vincent B. Gill (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoelectric generator system comprising a thermoelectric generator, a vortex tube for receiving a compressed gas from a flow input and separating the compressed gas into a hot flow exiting a first output and a cold flow exiting a second output, a sensor system for determining a first parameter, a second parameter, and a third parameter, the third parameter being indicative of a temperature of a thir...