US Patent Issued to Westinghouse Electric on May 20 for "Advanced manufacturing heat pipe segment with integral printed wick" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,929, issued on May 20, was assigned to Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Advanced manufacturing heat pipe segment with integral printed wick" was invented by Jeffrey Shoup (Delmont, Pa.) and Clinton B. Armstrong (Slippery Rock, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transition piece for joining heat pipe segments in a joining process is provided. The transition piece comprises a head section, a body section, a tail section and alignment tabs configured to facilitate a rotational alignment of an end of the body section and an end of a heat pipe segment during the joining process. The body section comprises a wick...