US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Polymeric cold plate for thermal management of power electronics" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,877, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Polymeric cold plate for thermal management of power electronics" was invented by Timothy Unton (Indianapolis) and Eric Donovan (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power electronic assembly includes a power electronic and a cold plate. The power electronic is configured to be powered by electric energy and to generate waste heat from the electric energy. The cold plate include polymeric material and is configured to elastically deform to uniformly cover the power electronic and transfer away the waste heat generated by t...