US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 28 for "Dynamically enhancing heat transfer through heat pipes" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,122, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamically enhancing heat transfer through heat pipes" was invented by Kevin O'Connell (Mantorville, Minn.), Phillip V. Mann (Rochester, Minn.), William James Anderl (Rochester, Minn.), Alexander Matos (Rochester, Minn.) and Brenda Berg (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pipe system, method, and heat sink system to enhance heat transfer from a heat-generating component. The method includes generating heat with the heat-generating component. The method also includes transferring at least a portion of the heat to at leas...