US Patent Issued on Dec. 30 for "Actively-cooled heat shield system and vehicle including the same" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,337, issued on Dec. 30.

"Actively-cooled heat shield system and vehicle including the same" was invented by Andrew Lapsa (Seattle) and Thomas Feldman (Kent, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actively-cooled heat shield system includes a heat shield, a tank, a pump, a heat exchanger, and a turbine. The heat shield defines a windward side of a vehicle. The tank stores a coolant. The pump receives the coolant from the tank and outputs a pressurized coolant. The heat exchanger is integrally connected with the heat shield. The heat exchanger receives the pressurized coolant from the pump, transfers heat from the heat shield to the p...