US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Sept. 30 for "Architecture and operational modes of pump-augmented loop heat pipe with multiple evaporators" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,288, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Architecture and operational modes of pump-augmented loop heat pipe with multiple evaporators" was invented by Dmitry Khrustalev (Woodstock, Md.), Timothy Holman (Alexandria, Va.) and Robert Baldauff (Mechanicsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump-augmented Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) includes a conventional LHP evaporator/reservoir assembly; one or more additional evaporators; a condenser; a condenser bypass; and a pump upstream of the condenser and condenser bypass and configur...