ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,386, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Oscillating heat pipes" was invented by Abbas A. Alahyari (Glastonbury, Conn.), Jinliang Wang (Ellington, Conn.) and Ram Ranjan (West Hartford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oscillating heat pipe device can include a body formed to be at least partially flexible, one or more channels within the body and defined by the body, an evaporator portion within the body at a first end of the one or more channels and in fluid communication with the one or more channels, and a condenser portion within the body at a second end of the one or more chann...