ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,653, issued on June 2, was assigned to NIDEC CHAUN-CHOUNG TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Vapor chamber and dendritic wick structure thereof" was invented by Han-Chang Yao (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chia-Ling Chin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Cheng-Han Jheng (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yu Han (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vapor chamber includes a vapor chamber body, multiple dendritic wick structures and a working fluid. The vapor chamber body includes a hollow shell and a capillary wick layer covered on an inner wall of the hollow shell. Each dendritic wick structure has a capillary base and m...