ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,590, issued on July 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cooling apparatus" was invented by Takashi Moriyama (Tokyo), Hiroaki Ishikawa (Tokyo), Tomohiko Saito (Tokyo) and Tatsuya Kusashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling apparatus (100) cools a heat-generating instrument, such as an electronic instrument (2), installed in an installation apparatus. The cooling apparatus (100) includes a refrigerant flow path configured circularly by sequentially connecting a pump (1) that circulates a refrigerant in a liquid state, a cooler (3) that cools the heat-generating instrument with the refrigerant, and a radi...