ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,068, issued on June 24, was assigned to TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).
"Heat pipe wick formation" was invented by Robert Stowers Reid (Santa Fe, N.M.), Morgan T. Biel (Los Alamos, N.M.), Lindsey M. Gaspar (Santa Fe, N.M.), Kirk Weisbrod (Los Alamos, N.M.), Katrina M. Sweetland (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Robert A. Zimmerman (Los Alamos, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming an annular heat pipe wick in a controlled atmosphere includes wrapping a plurality of layers of a fine mesh screen around a mandrel to form a wick. The method also includes inserting the mandrel and the wick into a sheath, and compre...