US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 8 for "Wick structure for thin heatpipes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,918, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Wick structure for thin heatpipes" was invented by Qinghong He (Austin, Texas) and Travis C. North (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more embodiments, a thin heatpipe may comprise a tube with a wick formed as a plurality of longitudinal ridges, each ridge in contact with a first portion of an inner surface corresponding to a first side of the tube and extending to contact a portion of the inner surface associated with an opposite side of the tube. The ridges may divide the interior of the tube into a plurality of vapor cavity area...