US Patent Issued to University Public Corporation Osaka on June 3 for "Photothermal conversion element, method of manufacturing the same, photothermal power generator, and microscopic object collection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,566, issued on June 3, was assigned to University Public Corporation Osaka (Osaka, Japan).

"Photothermal conversion element, method of manufacturing the same, photothermal power generator, and microscopic object collection system" was invented by Takuya Iida (Sakai, Japan), Atsuko Kosuga (Sakai, Japan) and Shiho Tokonami (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a photothermal conversion element includes preparing a solid material and forming a processed region processed by irradiation of the solid material with a laser beam. The forming includes grain refining the solid material to blacken the processed r...