ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,346, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Frore Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Virtual valve in a MEMS-based cooling system" was invented by Vikram Mukundan (San Ramon, Calif.), Ananth Saran Yalamarthy (Stanford, Calif.), Prabhu Sathyamurthy (San Jose, Calif.), Suryaprakash Ganti (Los Altos, Calif.), Narayana Prasad Rayapati (Mountain View, Calif.) and Seshagiri Rao Madhavapeddy (La Jolla, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active cooling system is described. The active cooling system includes at least one cooling element that has a vent therein and is in communication with a fluid. The cooling element(s) are actuated to vibra...