US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Oct. 28 for "Additively manufactured thermal energy storage units" (Texas, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,121, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Additively manufactured thermal energy storage units" was invented by Travis L. Mayberry (McKinney, Texas), Nicholas I. Maniscalco (Plano, Texas), Katherine P. Carpenter (Plano, Texas) and Michael J. Arthur (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a thermal energy storage unit for a surface to be cooled or heated includes using an additive manufacturing process to form a plurality of non-rectilinear structures having a plurality of thermally conductive substructures, the substructures defining a plurality of interior cavities within the su...