ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,278, issued on July 22, was assigned to ADVANCED COOLING TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Lancaster, Pa.).
"Multi-condenser variable conductance heat pipe" was invented by Calin Tarau (Downingtown, Pa.), Jeffrey Diebold (Chesterbrook, Pa.) and Kuan-Lin Lee (West Chester, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a thermal management system includes a heat source and a heat pipe connected to the heat source and configured to transfer thermal energy from the heat source to a plurality of condensers, each of the plurality of condensers branching off from a main pipe of the heat pipe. The heat pipe can be a variable conductance heat ...