ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,861, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Method for regulating thermal boundary conductance between metal and insulator" was invented by Yuefeng Nie (Nanjing, China), Yipeng Zang (Nanjing, China), Minghui Lu (Nanjing, China), Xuejun Yan (Nanjing, China), Chen Di (Nanjing, China) and Zhiming Geng (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for regulating a thermal boundary conductance between a metal and an insulator, including: arranging a metal on a surface of an insulator, a contact surface between the metal and the insulator being a boundary between the metal and the insul...