US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Aug. 12 for "3D printed cold plates and methods for cooling power devices embedded in 3D printed circuit boards" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,700, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"3D printed cold plates and methods for cooling power devices embedded in 3D printed circuit boards" was invented by Feng Zhou (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ercan Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes printing, using a 3D printer, a cold plate, printing, using a 3D printer, an electrical insulation layer embedded in a top surface of the cold plate, and printing, using a 3D printer, a conductor substrate embedded in the electrical insulation layer embedded in the top surface of the cold plate."...