US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on March 25 for "Buoyancy-based platform assembly for phase change material thermal management" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,193, issued on March 25, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Buoyancy-based platform assembly for phase change material thermal management" was invented by Comas Haynes (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes systems and methods of managing temperature distributions of phase change material. The disclosed technology can include a system comprising a platform having a passageway therethrough. The platform can include a density that is less than a density of the phase change material when in a solid phase and greater than a density of the phase change material when in a liquid phas...