ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,473, issued on July 1, was assigned to COOLER MASTER Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Vapor chamber" was invented by Lei-Lei Liu (Taipei, Taiwan), Xuemei Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Xiao-Min Zhang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hua-Yuan Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vapor chamber includes a first cover, a second cover, a sealing ring and a sealing plug. The first cover has a thermal contact surface. The second cover is coupled with the first cover so as to form an interior space together, and the second cover has a vent hole. The sealing ring has a channel and at least one opening. The opening is in fluid communication with the cha...