ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,694, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"3D vapor chamber" was invented by Xi-Wen Xiong (New Taipei, Taiwan), Lei Yao (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Xing-Xing Lyu (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D vapor chamber includes a vapor chamber and at least one pipe body. The vapor chamber has an upper plate and a lower plate mated with each other. The upper plate is formed with at least one perforation. An open end of the pipe body is outward expanded to form a lip section in connection with the upper plate. A closed end of the pipe body passes through the perforation of th...