ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,566, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licesning LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for microfluidic thermal management" was invented by Ruslan Nagimov (Redmond, Wash.), Bharath Ramakrishnan (Bellevue, Wash.), Husam Atallah Alissa (Seattle), Vaidehi Oruganti (Kirkland, Wash.) and Christian L. Belady (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management device includes a microfluidic volume having a first peripheral side and a second peripheral side and including at least one thermal element, a first port to the microfluidic volume, a second port from the microfluidic volume, an inlet ...