US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Sept. 8 for "Methods for thermal management in inductors" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,721, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods for thermal management in inductors" was invented by Ashutosh Joshi (Roscoe, Ill.) and Debabrata Pal (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management includes an inductor, a housing in thermal communication with the inductor, the housing defining a wall, and a conductor. The conductor has greater thermal conductivity than the wall and is positioned within a groove and/or an aperture formed in the wall. The conductor is configured to conduct heat through the wall more efficiently than if the conductor were not presen...