US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on June 24 for "Multilayered nonpolar, chromium, copper material coatings of power electronics boards for thermal management" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,449, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Multilayered nonpolar, chromium, copper material coatings of power electronics boards for thermal management" was invented by Tarek Gebrael (Champaign, Ill.), Arielle R. Gamboa (Urbana, Ill.), Jiaqi Li (Urbana, Ill.), Nenad Miljkovic (Urbana, Ill.) and Shayan Aflatounian (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a power component disposed on the PCB, the power component to generate heat, and a multilayered coating disposed over the power component and at least a portion o...