ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,578, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Frore Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"MEMS-based cooling systems for closed and open devices" was invented by Suryaprakash Ganti (Los Altos, Calif.), Seshagiri Rao Madhavapeddy (La Jolla, Calif.), Prabhu Sathyamurthy (San Jose, Calif.), Vikram Mukundan (San Ramon, Calif.) and Lumaya Ahmed (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including an active cooling system is described. The active cooling system includes a cooling element in communication with a fluid and configured to use vibrational motion to direct a fluid toward a surface of heat-generating structure(s). Heat is t...