ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,462, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).
"Cooler for power electronics" was invented by Samaneh Sadri (Redwood City, Calif.), Jonathan Luna (Union City, Calif.), Jerome Jambon (Fremont, Calif.) and Bradley Lucas Hall (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coolers for power electronics have mounting surfaces for power electronics modules and provide coolant flow using coolant paths. Base plates for power electronics can include pin fins. An inlet manifold can extend in a space between base plates. Parallel flows of coolant can abut respective halves of mounting surfaces so that a fluid volume inclu...