ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,851, issued on April 22, was assigned to ADVANCED COOLING TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Lancaster, Pa.).

"Loop heat pipe evaporator" was invented by Bradley Richard (Coatesville, Pa.), William Anderson (Bound Brook, N.J.), Richard W. Bonner III (Lancaster, Pa.), Devin Pellicone (Newtown, Pa.), Chien-Hua Chen (Lititz, Pa.), Greg Hoeschele (Lititz, Pa.), Taylor Maxwell (Lancaster, Pa.), Dan Pounds (Columbia, Mo.) and Dan Reist (Mountville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loop heat pipe evaporator includes a porous primary wick, and a nonporous envelope unseparatingly surrounding the primary wick. The primary wick and the envelope are of one-p...