ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,520, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Wick sheet for vapor chamber, vapor chamber, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Kazunori Oda (Tokyo-to, Japan), Toshihiko Takeda (Tokyo-to, Japan), Shinichiro Takahashi (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Takayuki Ota (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wick sheet for a vapor chamber includes a sheet body having a first body surface and a second body surface, a first vapor flow channel portion, a liquid flow channel portion provided on the second body surface, and the second vapor flow channel portion provided on the first body surface. The sheet ...