ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,291, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tomoegawa Corp. (Tokyo).

"Temperature regulation unit and method for manufacturing temperature regulation unit" was invented by Hideki Moriuchi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature regulation unit (10) includes a plurality of stacked porous metal structures (for example, metal fiber structures (40, 42)) each of which has a plurality of rod-shaped members (32, 34) extending parallel to each other so as to be spaced apart from each other and a connection member (24, 26) connecting the respective rod-shaped members (32, 34) and is formed from metal, the respective rod-shap...