ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,605, issued on March 3, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Loop heat pipe for low voltage drives" was invented by Oleksandr Sologubenko (Bonstetten, Switzerland), Daniele Torresin (Baden, Switzerland), Andrey Petrov (Zurich) and Bruno Agostini (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loop heat pipe includes: an evaporator having an enclosure with a heat receiving side and side walls with openings forming an evaporator chamber, the evaporator chamber including a primary capillary structure adjacent to the heat receiving side of the enclosure and extending to the side walls of the evaporator chamber, a plurality of g...