ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,749, issued on May 27, was assigned to Frore Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Actuator designs for MEMS-based active cooling" was invented by Vikram Mukundan (San Ramon, Calif.), Suryaprakash Ganti (Los Altos, Calif.), Ananth Saran Yalamarthy (Stanford, Calif.), Prabhu Sathyamurthy (San Jose, Calif.) and Seshagiri Rao Madhavapeddy (La Jolla, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system is described. The cooling system includes a cooling element and a support structure. The cooling element is configured to undergo vibrational motion when actuated to drive a fluid toward a heat-generating structure. The cooling element inclu...