ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,083, issued on May 13, was assigned to TOMOEGAWA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Temperature control unit and temperature control device" was invented by Shuhei Hatano (Shizuoka, Japan), Hideki Moriuchi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Katsuya Okumura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a temperature control unit capable of efficiently controlling a temperature of a specific object with reduced risk of failure of electronic components due to leakage of a temperature control medium. The temperature control unit (1), which controls a temperature of a specific object, contains a temperature control medium, and a metal fiber sheet ...