ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,190, issued on March 25, was assigned to SHENZHEN FLUENTROP TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).
"Heat pipe and geothermal energy collecting device" was invented by Yonggang Zhu (Guangdong, China), Yongyao Li (Guangdong, China), Huizhu Yang (Guangdong, China) and Chuanwen Lv (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pipe and a geothermal energy collecting device. The heat pipe includes a sealing member which is provided with channels; a first pipe body, one end of the first pipe body has an opening, and an other end of the first pipe body is sealed by the sealing member, which has a first chamber, first heat transfe...