US Patent Issued to Maxwell Labs on Dec. 23 for "Photonics-based cooling of heat sources" (New Jersey, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,381, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Maxwell Labs Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Photonics-based cooling of heat sources" was invented by Jacob A. Balma (Lino Lakes, Minn.) and Alejandro Rodriguez-Wong (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic cooling device for a heat source comprises a coupler and extractor layer. The coupler layer is configured to guide (i) first light into the extractor layer, (ii) second light into the extractor layer that is defined based on at least one heat-source characteristic to target a given region that corresponds to a hot spot region of the heat source, and (iii) third light away from t...