ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,878, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Dryout detection for cooling device" was invented by Shunsuke Sekimoto (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling device for performing cooling by utilizing latent heat of vaporization without a compressor and is provided with a liquid feeding unit for feeding a refrigerant, an evaporator for evaporating the fed refrigerant, a condenser for condensing the evaporated refrigerant, and a controller for controlling the flow rate of the refrigerant. The controller is configured to determine whether or not dryout has occurred based on the temperature of the...