US Patent Issued to Sanoh Industrial on May 20 for "Heat-utilizing power generation module and thermal power generation device equipped with same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,238, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sanoh Industrial Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Heat-utilizing power generation module and thermal power generation device equipped with same" was invented by Biao Mei (Koga, Japan), Naoya Goto (Koga, Japan) and Masaki Takeuchi (Koga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The thermoelectric module includes a first thermoelectric element including a first thermoelectric conversion layer and a first electrolyte layer stacked each other along a stacked direction, a second thermoelectric element stacking the first thermoelectric element in the stacked direction and including a second thermoelectric conversion la...