ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,927, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to HYOSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Evaporation device for cooling" was invented by Chang Woo Han (Goyang-si, South Korea), Seung Boong Jeong (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Joon Hong Boo (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is an evaporation device for cooling. In an evaporation space 12 formed inside a housing 10, a wick 16 allows a working fluid to move by capillary force. As the working fluid moves from a lower portion of the evaporation space 12 to an upper portion thereof, that is, from the working fluid inlet pipe 26 to the vapor outl...