US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on April 15 for "Systems and methods for periodic nodal surface based reactors, distributors, contractors and heat exchangers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,459, issued on April 15, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for periodic nodal surface based reactors, distributors, contractors and heat exchangers" was invented by Jaisree Kannan Iyer (Fremont, Calif.), Pratanu Roy (San Ramon, Calif.), Du T. Nguyen (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Joshuah K. Stolaroff (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for forming a transport mechanism for transporting at least one of a gas or a liquid. The method may comprise using a 3D printing operation to form the mechanism with an inlet and an outl...