ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,866, issued on April 14, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Membrane-based desorption cooling method for passive thermal management" was invented by Wei Wu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Fuxiang Li (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Zengguang Sui (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Zhixiong Ding (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yunren Sui (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Chong Zhai (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Haosheng Lin (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane-based desorption cooling method for passive thermal management is presented. The module includes: (i) a covering layer for thermally conducting and transferring hea...