ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,782, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Tomoegawa Corp. (Tokyo).

"Temperature regulation unit with rod shaped flow members" was invented by Hideki Moriuchi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a temperature regulation unit (10), a flow passage (50) for a fluid is formed between a plurality of rod-shaped members (30) which extend parallel to each other so as to be spaced apart from each other and are formed from porous metal; in the flow passage (50), the fluid flows along a flow direction which is a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the rod-shaped members (30) extend; and the flow passage (50) meanders along th...