ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,255, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Cooling device" was invented by Kenta Emori (Kanagawa, Japan), Jumpei Niida (Kanagawa, Japan), Emi Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shigeharu Yamagami (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling device is provided with a heat sink having a plurality of fins, and a plasma actuator. Flow paths are formed between adjacent ones of the fins. The plasma actuator is provided away from the fins where the flow paths are formed. The plasma actuator has electrodes that are arranged offset in the flow path direction. The plasma actuator generates an in...