US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on April 1 for "Two-phase thermal pump" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,601, issued on April 1, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Two-phase thermal pump" was invented by Eugene Charles Jansen (Stafford, Va.) and Jeffrey Wen-Yu Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid storage tank can be configured to store a cooling fluid in a liquid state and a gas state. A first heat exchanger can be configured to release heat into the fluid storage tank. A second heat exchanger can be disposed fluidly downstream of the fluid storage tank and configured to exchange heat between the cooling fluid and a heat load. A pressure control device can be disposed fluidly ...