US Patent Issued to Aavid Thermal on Sept. 1 for "Heat pipe with brazed seam" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,822, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Aavid Thermal Corp. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Heat pipe with brazed seam" was invented by John Thayer (Lancaster, Pa.), Sergey Semenov (Lancaster, Pa.) and Nelson J. Gernert (Elizabethtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat transfer device includes a hollow metal body. The hollow body defines a wall having a thickness, an internal chamber defined at least in part by the wall, a vacuum defined in the internal chamber, a seam defined between two different portions of the wall and extending through the thickness of the wall, a brazing material applied to the seam to hermetically seal the intern...