ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,696, issued on March 4, was assigned to APR Technologies AB (Sweden).

"Electrohydrodynamics system and method" was invented by Mikael Antelius (Taby, Sweden), Henrik Lofgren (Uppsala, Sweden), Are Bjorneklett (Vasteras, Sweden), Peter Nilsson (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Robert Thorslund (Sigtuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for altering one or more properties of a dielectric fluid for use in an electrohydrodynamic, EHD, thermal management system (100), as well as the system, are provided. The system comprises at least one EHD pump unit (110) comprising at least two electrodes for pumping the dielectric fluid and at le...