ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,413, issued on May 19, was assigned to Frore Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Driving of piezoelectrics for MEMS-based cooling systems" was invented by Suryaprakash Ganti (Los Altos, Calif.), Ganapathy Sankar (Cupertino, Calif.), Vikram Mukundan (San Ramon, Calif.) and Ananth Saran Yalamarthy (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system is described. The cooling system includes a support structure, a cooling element, and drive electronics. The cooling element has a central axis and is supported by the support structure at the central axis. First and second portions of the cooling element are on first and second s...