US Patent Issued to Simmonds Precision Products on Nov. 18 for "Powering sensor packages in moving platforms" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,947, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Simmonds Precision Products Inc. (Vergennes, Vt.).

"Powering sensor packages in moving platforms" was invented by Robert D. Rutkiewicz (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a thermoelectric generator (TEG) system can include a TEG conversion element configured to be in thermal communication with a leading edge surface subject to hypersonic flow and a heatsink to generate a temperature differential across the TEG conversion element mounted between the leading edge surface and heatsink, and an electrical conductor configured to con...