US Patent Issued to Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on July 15 for "Ground testable spacecraft heat pipe" (New Mexico Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,876, issued on July 15, was assigned to Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Kirtland AFB, N.M.).

"Ground testable spacecraft heat pipe" was invented by Jonathan Allison (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground testable spacecraft heat pipe has a spacecraft heat pipe thermally connected for conduction of heat through a heat acquisition cold plate to a heat acquisition riser of a bubble pump heat pipe, enabling a plug-slug flow of heated fluid into a separator, with heated liquid flowing downward through a hear rejection downcomer to a heat rejection pipe section mounted o...