US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MALTA on May 27 for "Power optimization for a multistage stack of thermoelectric cooling devices" (Maltese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,112, issued on May 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MALTA (Msida, Malta).

"Power optimization for a multistage stack of thermoelectric cooling devices" was invented by Marc Anthony Azzopardi (San Gwann, Malta) and Andre Micallef (Birbirkara, Malta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems and systems provide for temperature control between thermoelectric coolers (TECs or TEMs) in a stack of multiple TECs, by optimizing the power suppled to each TEC in the stack. The temperatures may be continuously monitored, to continuously provide for the aforementioned power optimization."

The patent was filed on July 20, 2022, under Ap...