ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,035, issued on April 8, was assigned to Frore Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Engineered actuators usable in MEMs active cooling devices" was invented by Vikram Mukundan (San Ramon, Calif.), Suryaprakash Ganti (Los Altos, Calif.), Ananth Saran Yalamarthy (Stanford, Calif.), Seshagiri Rao Madhavapeddy (La Jolla, Calif.) and Prabhu Sathyamurthy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator usable in a cooling system is described. The actuator includes an anchored region and a cantilevered arm. The cantilevered arm extends outward from the anchored region. The cantilevered arm includes a step region, an extension region...