ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,795, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sanoh Industrial Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Heat-utilizing power generation module" was invented by Biao Mei (Koga, Japan), Naoya Goto (Koga, Japan), Masaki Takeuchi (Koga, Japan) and Sachiko Matsushita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The thermoelectric module includes a flexible base, a first current collector located on the flexible base, a first thermoelectric element located on the first current collector, the first thermoelectric element including a first thermoelectric conversion layer and a first electrolyte layer stacked in order along a stacked d...