ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,314, issued on March 18, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Heat pipe" was invented by Shih-Lin Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chiu-Kung Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Sheng-Hua Luo (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Ti-Jun Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pipe comprises a flat tube and a wick structure. The flat tube includes a hollow chamber and has a front and a rear sealed ends along an axial direction. The wick structure is disposed in the hollow chamber and extended along the axial direction of the flat tube. The wick structure is divided into a front, a middle and a rear sections sequentially along th...