ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,227, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Tokamak Energy Ltd (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Plasma-facing component cooling" was invented by Rob Bamber (Abingdon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plasma-facing component for a plasma chamber, comprising: a plasma-facing target surface; an inlet through which to receive a coolant fluid and an outlet through which to expel the coolant fluid; and a plurality of internal cooling channels. Each cooling channel is connected to the inlet by a plurality of feed channels and to the outlet by a plurality of return channels, the feed channels being configured to direct coolant fluid aga...