US Patent Issued to Aavid Thermal on March 11 for "Heat pipes having wick structures with variable permeability" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,789, issued on March 11, was assigned to Aavid Thermal Corp. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Heat pipes having wick structures with variable permeability" was invented by Mark T. North (Lancaster, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pipe is provided having a hollow body defining an interior vapor space, evaporator and condenser regions, a wick structure lining an inner wall of the hollow body, and a working fluid disposed in the hollow body, wherein a path for the working fluid in liquid state extends from the condenser region toward the evaporator region or wherein the wick structure extends along a direction from a first end of the hol...