US Patent Issued to L3Harris Technologies on May 27 for "Locally embedded phase change material for heat sinks" (Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,347, issued on May 27, was assigned to L3Harris Technologies Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Locally embedded phase change material for heat sinks" was invented by Robert Ruffino (Richardson, Texas), Matthew Spitzner (Lowry Crossing, Texas) and Gregory Gorski (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PCM heat sink comprises a thermally conductive body member having a plurality of PCM-receiving bores defined therein from at last one surface thereof. A plurality of pre-cast PCM rods are disposed in respective bores have a phase change temperature from solid to liquid at or just below a specified maximum operating temperature. A...