US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Feb. 18 for "Near-field radiative heat transfer systems and methods of use thereof" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,353, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Totota, Japan).

"Near-field radiative heat transfer systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Ziqi Yu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Hideo Iizuka (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate a tunable heat transfer system. The tunable heat transfer system includes a controller, a first body, and a second body. The first body is communicatively coupled to the controller. The second body is commu...