ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,774, issued on March 11, was assigned to Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Ltd. (Oxon, Great Britain).
"Gas gap heat switch configuration" was invented by Anthony Matthews (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryogenic cooling system that includes a cooled plate thermally coupled to a cryogenic refrigerator, a target assembly that includes a target refrigerator configured to achieve a lower base temperature than the cryogenic refrigerator, and a heat switch assembly with one or more gas gap heat switches. The heat switch assembly has a first end thermally coupled to the cooled plate and a second end the...