ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,549, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Corona discharge powered cooling" was invented by Amol Suresh Mulay (Pune, India), Christopher Cantrell (Jackson, Mich.), Peter Fritz (Dublin) and Armen Baronian (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system includes an ionic motion generator to direct fluid flow towards a heated component (e.g., equipment to be cooled or a heatsink mounted thereat). In certain systems, the fluid is directed through a conduit arrangement. In certain systems, the fluid is directed past the heated component to a heat exchanger. Certain types of thermal m...